Dictionary entry overview: What does prodigy mean? â¢ PRODIGY (noun) The noun PRODIGY has 3 senses: 1. an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration 2. a sign of something about to happen 3. an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality Familiarity information: PRODIGY used as a noun is uncommon.
An architectural distortion is a somewhat vague phrase used by radiologists, when the mammogram shows a region where the breasts normal appearance, looks like an abnormal arrangement of tissue strands, often a radial or perhaps a somewhat random pattern, but without any associated mass as the apparent cause of this distortion.
In this article, we review a variety of breast diseases that may present as architectural distortion on mammography; review the utility of correlative imaging, such as ultrasound and magnetic resonance; and review appropriate management for these diagnoses.