MR Imaging Features of Infiltrating Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast
Histopathologic Correlation
Aliya Qayyum1,
Robyn L. Birdwell2,
Bruce L. Daniel2,
Kent W. Nowels2,
Stefanie S. Jeffrey2,
Tony A. Agoston2 and
Robert J. Herfkens2
1 Department of Radiology, Box 0628, University of California San Francisco, 505
Parnassus Ave., San Francisco, CA 94143-0628.
2 Department of Radiology, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Dr.,
Stanford, CA 94305.

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Fig. 1A. 55-year-old woman with multiple infiltrating lobular
carcinoma lesions. Sagittal three-dimensional water-selective spectral-spatial
magnetization transfer MR image shows enhancing tumor clusters
(arrows) with nonenhancing intervening tissue.
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Fig. 1B. 55-year-old woman with multiple infiltrating lobular
carcinoma lesions. Color parametric map of A shows yellow regions that
correspond to tumor foci. K21 value maps are used to colorize high-resolution
three-dimensional water-selective spectral-spatial magnetization transfer
images with colors ranging from cyan (lowest values) to yellow (highest
values).
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Fig. 1C. 55-year-old woman with multiple infiltrating lobular
carcinoma lesions. Photomicrograph shows foci of infiltrating lobular
carcinoma (arrows) surrounded by benign breast tissue (B). Normal
tissue separates infiltrating lobular carcinoma foci. (H and E,
x200)
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Fig. 2A. 47-year-old woman with solitary infiltrating lobular
carcinoma. Sagittal three-dimensional water-selective spectral-spatial
magnetization transfer MR image shows enhancing, solitary, irregular mass
(arrow).
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Fig. 2B. 47-year-old woman with solitary infiltrating lobular
carcinoma. Photomicrograph shows solitary tumor mass (asterisk) with
irregular margins. (H and E, x100)
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Fig. 3. 69-year-old woman with noncontiguous tumor foci and malignant
cells streaming in single-file fashion in breast stroma. Sagittal MR image
shows tumor foci (asterisks) connected by enhancing strands
(arrows).
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Fig. 4A. 43-year-old woman with noncontiguous tumor foci and malignant
cells streaming in single-file fashion in breast stroma. Photomicrograph shows
tumor focus (arrows) with fibrous strand (S) extending from focus. (H
and E, x100)
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Fig. 4B. 43-year-old woman with noncontiguous tumor foci and malignant
cells streaming in single-file fashion in breast stroma. Photomicrograph of
fibrous strand shows classic histologic pattern of tumor cells in single-file
arrangements. (H and E, x300)
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Fig. 5. 84-year-old woman with tumor cells streaming in breast
stroma. Sagittal MR image shows enhancing septa (arrows) with no
dominant focus of tumor.
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