How do radial scars appear on imaging?
How do radial scars appear on imaging?
On mammography, they are typically an area of architectural distortion best seen on tomosynthesis images. The central lucency (in contrast to a cancer which typically has a central mass) results in the term black star used to describe a radial scar.
On ultrasound, they can be occult or seen as a subtle hypoechoic mass with posterior acoustic shadowing mimicking a breast cancer