PMC4899669_01
79-year-old woman with brachial plexus tumor. Right breast carcinoma. Antiradial ultrasound shows a typical irregular hypoechoic mass (arrow) with some angulated margins at 3 o'clock in the right breast.
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Current mammography and ultrasound showed an irregular 23mm mass suspicious for carcinoma at 3 o'clock in the right breast, corresponding to the new lump (Fig. 1).
79-year-old woman with brachial plexus tumor. Right axillary nerve-sheath tumor. Transverse ultrasound image shows a hyperechoic focus in the peripheral aspect of the tumor and a partially visualized capsule (arrows).
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Pre-operative axillary ultrasound showed a 20mm, well-defined, hypoechoic, oval mass with an eccentric hyperechoic focus (Figure 2, Figure 3) in close proximity to the axillary artery and vein (Fig. 4).
79-year-old woman with brachial plexus tumor. Longitudinal ultrasound shows the right axillary artery with the adjacent nerve-sheath tumor. Note the eccentric hyperechoic focus (arrow).
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Pre-operative axillary ultrasound showed a 20mm, well-defined, hypoechoic, oval mass with an eccentric hyperechoic focus (Figure 2, Figure 3) in close proximity to the axillary artery and vein (Fig. 4).
79-year-old woman with brachial plexus tumor. Right axillary nerve-sheath tumor. Transverse ultrasound image shows a well-defined mass (arrows) with no detectable vascularity.
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No vessels were seen within the mass on Doppler interrogation (Fig. 5), and it was not palpable by the treating breast surgeon.