Affiliations: [a] Department of Radiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA | [b] University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA | [c] University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Miami, FL, USA
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Corresponding author: Monica M. Yepes, Department of Radiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1150 NW 14th Street, Suite 511, Miami, FL 33136, USA. Fax: 305 243 4954; E-mail: myepes@med.miami.edu
Abstract: The presence of mammographically evident hyperdense foci within axillary lymph nodes elicits concern for calcium deposits, which in turn have a wide differential diagnosis including both benign and malignant entities. Tissue sampling, most commonly by way of image-guided core needle biopsy, is needed in many cases when a definite etiology cannot be clinically established. In this case series we present history, imaging findings, and pathology results (or long term follow-up stability as biopsy surrogate) of several women with body tattoos who at mammography were noted to have a characteristic pattern of “bubbly” pseudo-calcifications within axillary lymph nodes, and absence of other mammographic, sonographic and clinical abnormalities.
