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OF THE BREAST
M. IRVANIE RAMA HARAHAP, MD et al
Radiology Departement Hasan Sadikin General
Hospital
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DEFINITION
Fibroadenoma is one of the commonest
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EPIDEMIOLOGY
They usually occur in women between the
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CLINICAL PRESENTATIONS
The typical presentation is in a women of
40.
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CLINICAL PRESENTATIONS
The lesions are well defined and well
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PATHOLOGY
A fibrodenoma is a type of adenomatous
15% of patients.
Patients with multiple fibroadenomas tend
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PATHOLOGY
They are assumed to be aberrations of
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LOCATIONS
When found in an adolescent girl, the term
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RADIOLOGY : MAMMOGRAPHY
Fibroadenomas have a spectrum of features
postmenopausal
patientsmay
contain
calcification, often producing theclassic,
coarsepopcorn calcificationappearance.
Calcification
may
also
present
as
microcalcification which makes differentiation
from malignancy difficult.
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RADIOLOGY : ULTRASOUND
Typically
seen as awell-circumscribed,
round to ovoid, or macrolobulated mass
with generally uniform hypoechogenicity.
Intralesional
sonographically detectable
calcification may be seen in ~10% of cases .
Sometimes
a thin echogenic
pseudocapsule
may
be
sonographically..
rim seen
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RADIOLOGY : MRI
T1: typically hypointense or isointense
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