The Contact Zone: A Common Site of Tumor Recurrence in a Patient Who Underwent Skin-Sparing Mastectomy and Myocutaneous Flap Reconstruction

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• 作者：Rend Al-Khalili ; MD ; ^{rendkhalili@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Ralph T. Wynn ; MD ; Richard Ha ; MD
• 刊名：Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May-June 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：45
• 期：3
• 页码：233-234
• 全文大小：491 K

文摘

Routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) screening is not typically warranted in asymptomatic patients with a history of breast cancer and myocutaneous flap reconstruction due to the rare incidence of local tumor recurrence. We present a case of recurrent invasive ductal carcinoma along the contact zone between the transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (TRAM) flap and the native breast tissue that was incidentally detected on a routine high-risk screening-MRI of the breast in an asymptomatic patient with a history of breast cancer.