Nara Pacheco Pereira MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Reine Fahed MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Almir Bitencourt MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Nagi Fouad Khouri MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

- To review the characteristics and describe the complex-symptoms of that rare disease: eosinophilic fasciitis. - The purpose of this study is to report a rare case of eosinophilic fasciitis, which the findings on mammography have not been described in the literature. - The purpose of our presentation is to illustrate the mammographic progression during a ten year follow up of that rare condition.    

- Review eosinophilic fasciitis' (EF) complex symptoms. - Review the etiology and pathogenesis of the disease. - Illustrate a case report:  67-year-old patient with a history of breast cancer, treated by lumpectomy and radiation therapy, who developed diffuse fasciitis with eosinophilia.  - Illustrate the mammographic progression during a ten year follow up of that rare condition, which shows extensive coarse calcifications throughout the left breast moderately to markedly increasing, with many of them noted to be subcutaneous and dermal, and some of the calcifications breaking through the skin. -Summary: Our case illustrates a remarkable chronological association of the incipience of EF following lumpectomy and radiation therapy for carcinoma of the breast. The manifestations of EF on mammographic findings have not been described in the literature.

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Pereira, N, Fahed, R, Bitencourt, A, Khouri, N, Mammographic Finding of Eosinophilic Fascitis.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14016067.html