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A 40-year-old woman sees her doctor for an annual physical exam. She is healthy and does not take any medications. She has a family history of breast cancer. Her physical examination is normal with no palpable breast masses. Her doctor recommends that she get a screening mammography as part of her routine health maintenance screening, which she agrees to do. A week later, she gets a call from her doctor to inform her that the mammogram is abnormal (BI-RADS 4). Her left breast was found to have multiple clusters of fine linear microcalcifications, with the largest cluster measuring 2 mm in diameter.
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Grigorian, A., de Virgilio, C., Hari, D.M. (2020). Abnormal Screening Mammogram. In: de Virgilio, C., Grigorian, A. (eds) Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05387-1_5
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