The Flood is the first pictorial scene that Michelangelo Buonarroti painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. On the right side of the fresco a woman with abnormal breast morphology is presented and the nature of her disease is considered using the Guidelines for Iconodiagnosis. A team of experts covering art history, art expertise, medicine, genetics, and pathology undertook the process and concluded that the pathology shown is probably breast cancer, most likely linked to the symbolic significance of an inevitable death as expressed in the Book of Genesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In breast tissue, pre-malignant lesions are classified as BIRADS 3. The treatment of this heterogeneous group varies with expertise and tools available.
Materials And Methods: With the example of two case reports, the literature is reviewed on current treatment options for BIRADS 3 breast lesions.