Fig. 20
From: Breast MRI during pregnancy and lactation: clinical challenges and technical advances
MRI of breast cancer diagnosed post-weaning. Pre-operative MR images of 42-year-old patient with DCIS, newly diagnosed to months after cessation of breastfeeding are presented. Subtraction DCE (a) and CAD (b) reveal large nonmass enhancing lesion in the left breast, on top of minimal BPE. Non-fat surpassed T2-weighted image at the height of the nipple reveal high signal ducts in the sub-areolar region (c), representing the transformation of the breast from lactation to involution