Unilateral Breast Edema in Congestive Heart Failure ‐ A Mimic of Diffuse Carcinoma

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1 August 1991

journal article
case report
Published by Wiley in Australasian Radiology

Vol. 35 (3) , 274-275
DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1673.1991.tb03025.x
PMID:1763994

Abstract

Mammography in a patient with congestive heart failure showed unilateral skin thickening and a reticular pattern mimicking diffuse carcinoma. Resolution after treatment of the heart failure established the abnormality as secondary to dependent edema.

Keywords

MAMMOGRAPHY
CARCINOMA
HEART FAILURE

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