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A 27-year-old female asked:
Persistent pain at 9oclock in left breast for a year. last week doctor found lump but ultrasound and mammogram showed nothing. what now?
2 doctor answers • 3 doctors weighed in
Dr. Myron Arlenanswered
Surgical Oncology 66 years experience
Biopsy: While pain is not a characteristic of a tumor, regardless of what mammo or sono shows, the presence of a palpable lesion requires clarification. That is either a true cut needle that must show pathology and not normal tissue or an excisional biopsy under local anesthesia. Too many malignancies are watched until the have grown because mammo or sono considered neg.
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Dr. Michael Gaboranswered
Diagnostic Radiology 35 years experience
The chance of: of malignancy is low in light of the negative mammo and ultrasound, but next step should probably be an evaluation by a breast surgeon.
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Last updated May 23, 2019
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