Architecture of breast stroma varies significantly from person to person

1. Get a sense of an individual’s anatomy

–     If you see architectural distortion everywhere, you are wrong! (likely seeing a variant of normal anatomy or normal post-surgical changes)

2. Search for areas of interruption of an individual’s anatomy

–     Tent sign: Retraction of posterior parechyma; usually from malignancy

–     Any converging straight lines (spiculations w/no mass)

(Georgian-Smith 2014)