Breast cancer screening in women with chronic kidney disease: the unrecognized effects of metastatic soft-tissue calcification
Mario R Castellanos*, Kavitha Paramanathan, Suzanne El-Sayegh, Frank Forte, Shalom Buchbinder and Morton Kleiner
Correspondence *Department of Medicine, Staten Island University Hospital, 360 Seaview Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10305, USA
Email mcastellanos@siuh.edu
Patients with chronic kidney disease are known to develop metastatic soft-tissue calcification in tissues including the breast. Such calcifications in women could pose a problem for interpretation of mammograms. Authors from Staten Island University Hospital, NY review the available data on the prevalence and types of breast calcifications in women with chronic kidney disease, and discuss the utility of mammography in this setting.
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