Breast Amyloidosis in a Female Patient with Multiple Myeloma: Ultrasonographic and Mammographic Findings

Abstract

Amyloidosis is a rare disease characterized by pathological protein deposits in organs or tissues. Breast involvement by amyloidosis is rare. We report a female patient with amyloidosis in the breast, with underlying multiple myeloma, which presents as a focal asymmetry on a screening mammogram and a low suspicious mass lesion by ultrasonography.

Keywords

• breast; amyloidosis
• multiple myeloma
• mammography
• ultrasonography