What the Radiologist Needs to Know About Breast Trauma

The breast is injured in a variety of circumstances, including direct trauma, such as from a motor vehicle accident, or iatrogenic, secondary to biopsy or intervention. The severity of reported breast injuries ranges from small hematomas to breast avulsion; the latter injury requires emergent mastectomy to stop active hemorrhage.1 The correlation of multimodality breast imaging with clinical presentation is important for differentiating benign posttraumatic abnormalities from malignant processes, thereby preventing unnecessary workup and intervention.
Source: Contemporary Diagnostic Radiology - Category: Radiology Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research