File:Breast carcinoma with pathological hip fracture (Radiopaedia 60314-67993 Coronal bone window 54).jpg

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  • Radiopaedia case ID: 60314
  • Image ID: 38937312
  • Image stack position: 54/128
  • Plane projection: Coronal
  • Aux modality: bone window
  • Study findings: Comminuted fracture through a 3.8 cm lytic lesion in the right femoral neck. Smaller lucent lesions in the visualized pelvis in keeping with metastases. Comment: pathological right extracapsular fracture (likely breast primary).
  • Modality: CT
  • System: Breast
  • Findings: Chest: 8.2 cm irregular mass in the upper outer quadrant of the right breast, extending to the skin, which is thickened. Several smaller satellite nodules throughout the right breast. Large volume right axillary lymphadenopathy up to 3.7 cm in short axis diameter. 5 mm right upper lobe lung nodule. Left basal atelectasis. Abdomen: Two subcentimeter lesions on the background of a fatty liver. These may be metastases. Solid organs otherwise normal. Bones: T12 metastatic superior endplate wedge fracture.  Small lucent bone lesions in the pelvis. Pathological fracture through the right neck of femur. Comment: 1. Right breast malignancy with bone and lung metastases. 2. Pathological fracture of right femoral neck.
Date Published: 21st May 2018
Source https://radiopaedia.org/cases/breast-carcinoma-with-pathological-hip-fracture
Author Ian Bickle
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