Metastatic Choriocarcinoma to the Breast: Appearance on Mammography and Doppler Sonography
Naveen Kalra1,
Vijayanadh Ojili1,
Madhu Gulati1,
G. R. V. Prasad2,
Kim Vaiphei3 and
Sudha Suri1
1 Department of Radiodiagnosis, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and
Research, PGIMER, Sector 12, Chandigarh 160012, India.
2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical
Education and Research, Chandigarh 160012, India.
3 Department of Histopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and
Research, Chandigarh 160012, India.

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Fig. 1A. 27-year-old woman who presented with a slow-growing, painless
lump in right breast. Mammograms of right breast, craniocaudal (A) and
oblique (B) views, show large (6.5 x 6.0 x 5.0 cm)
well-defined, lobulated, high-density mass in lower inner quadrant of breast.
No focus of calcification or surrounding architectural distortion is
present.
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Fig. 1B. 27-year-old woman who presented with a slow-growing, painless
lump in right breast. Mammograms of right breast, craniocaudal (A) and
oblique (B) views, show large (6.5 x 6.0 x 5.0 cm)
well-defined, lobulated, high-density mass in lower inner quadrant of breast.
No focus of calcification or surrounding architectural distortion is
present.
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Fig. 1C. 27-year-old woman who presented with a slow-growing, painless
lump in right breast. Sonogram of right breast shows well-defined, lobulated,
hypoechoic solid mass. No posterior acoustic shadowing or calcification is
seen within mass.
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Fig. 1D. 27-year-old woman who presented with a slow-growing, painless
lump in right breast. Power Doppler sonogram of mass lesion shows presence of
multiple intralesional vascular channels.
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Fig. 1E. 27-year-old woman who presented with a slow-growing, painless
lump in right breast. Spectral trace of tumor vessel shows high-impedance flow
with absent diastolic flow.
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Fig. 1F. 27-year-old woman who presented with a slow-growing, painless
lump in right breast. Photomicrograph of breast tumor shows two types of
cellsthat is, mononuclear and multinuclear cells with abundant
cytoplasm and prominent nucleoli. (H and E, x240)
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Fig. 1G. 27-year-old woman who presented with a slow-growing, painless
lump in right breast. Photomicrograph shows positivity for HCG antibody, seen
as brownish discoloration of cytoplasm. (peroxidase-antiperoxidase,
x450)
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