Santiago SL, Sanabria VLC, Garza AJ

Language: Spanish
References: 0
Page: 165-166
PDF size: 138.02 Kb.

Calcifications are frequent findings in mammography and are primarily benign processes. However, some patterns should be analyzed with greater caution, such as Mönckeberg's sclerosis. This entity usually occurs in medium-caliber blood vessels in the mammary gland, with a "railroad track" pattern of calcifications. These findings are usually risk predictors for vascular and peripheral diseases, so an atherosclerotic, embolic, or even autoimmune phenomenon must be ruled out, or they can help to prevent some of them.