Chest wall recurrence of breast cancer detected by scintimammography

Clin Nucl Med. 2000 Feb;25(2):104-6. doi: 10.1097/00003072-200002000-00004.

Abstract

A case of chest wall recurrence of breast cancer detected by scintimammography is presented. A 63-year-old woman who had a right mastectomy for breast carcinoma 24 years earlier was evaluated for left axillary adenopathy. Although it was suspected that a second primary malignancy had developed in the left breast, results of mammography and magnetic resonance imaging of that breast were negative. Scintimammography performed with Tc-99m sestamibi confirmed a normal left breast but revealed a lesion in the right chest wall at the site of the previous mastectomy. This was surgically confirmed as recurrent breast carcinoma, which subsequently altered patient management.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / diagnostic imaging
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi
  • Thoracic Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Thoracic Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi