breast cancer Flashcards
MAMMOGRAPHIC SCREENING used for
Small, non-palpable breast carcinomas
carcinomas with no breast symptoms
normal breast on mammogram
Dense fibroglandular tissue: White
Fatty tissue: Clear
breast cancer on mammogram
densities & calcifications
malignant breast cancer incidence in ><40 women
<40 12%
>40 30%
Acute Mastitis & Breast Abscess etiology
inflammation (staph or strep) blocking lactiferous duct
Sheets of neutrophils & fibrosis or scarring later
Acute Mastitis & Breast Abscess clinically
hard lump
Galactocele
seen in Acute Mastitis & Breast Abscess
Galactocele
Cyst with milk, macrophages & inflammatory cells.
Chronic Mastitis
Plasma cell mastititis / ductectasia
Traumatic Fat Necrosis
Tuberculous mastitis
commenest Chronic Mastitis
Tuberculous mastitis
thick chessy secretion
Plasma cell mastititis
History of trauma or prior surgery
Traumatic Fat Necrosis
Traumatic Fat Necrosis clinical
Painless palpable hard mass, skin thickening or retraction
confusion with breast CA
Traumatic Fat Necrosis
Tuberculous mastitis identified by
Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) staining & culture
caseating granulomatous in lung
Tuberculous mastitis
FIBROCYSTIC CHANGES IN BREAST age
3rd-5th decade
Lump occasionally with brownish discharge
FIBROCYSTIC CHANGES IN BREAST:
FIBROCYSTIC CHANGES IN BREAST appearance
Single or multiple cyst surrounded by white firm solid tissue, bluish, brownish fluid with fibrosis & inflammatory lymphocytes flattend or cubical epithelium& outer myoepionelial
Apocrine metaplasia
Moderate hyperplasia risk of cancer
1.5 -2
Atypical hyperplasia risk of cancer
5
Family history & atypical hyperplasia
10
Sclerosing adenosis grossly
Hard rubbery lump
Benign breast tumors
Fibroadenoma, phyllodes tumor, duct papilloma & adenomas
Commenest benign breast tumor
Fibroadenoma
Mobile lump
Fibroadenoma
Fibroadensma median age
3rd decade
Fibroadenoma etiology
Increase in estrogen (pregnancy & lactation)
Leaf like tumor
Phyllodes tumor
Phyllodes tumor histology
Excessive stromal overgrowth projecting into cleft & mitoses
Fibroadenoma grossly
Firm rubbery encapsulated