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case_images: The patient presents with left breast swelling.
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case_images: A 50-year-old Japanese female presented at our institute with a swelling in her left breast (Figure 1).
case_images: Ultrasound showing a hypoechoic mass with a hyperechoic boundary toward the subcutaneous tissue (arrow).
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case_images: Ultrasound revealed a hypoechoic mass with a hyperechoic boundary toward the subcutaneous tissue (Figure 2).
case_images: (a) Computed tomography (CT) showing a large mass in the lower region of the left breast. The fifth rib under the mass is fractured (arrow). (b) T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging reveals contrast enhancement from the border of the mass to the pleura (arrow).
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case_images: Computed tomography (CT) revealed a large mass measuring 10 cm x 10 cm in the lower region of the left breast, with pleural and skin thickening and fracture of the fifth rib under the mass (Figure 3(a)). Contrast-enhanced T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging with fat suppression revealed a low-signal intensity mass in the lower region of the left mammary gland, and contrast enhancement revealed its border and the adjacent pleura (Figure 3(b)).
case_images: Computed tomography showing that the abscess cavity has shrunk and that the fracture in the fifth rib has healed (arrow).
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case_images: On the 24th day of admission, CT showed that the abscess cavity had shrunk and that the fracture of the fifth rib had healed (Figure 4).