Breast pathology 031121

Question 1

cytopathology staging in breast

Answer 1

c1 - inadequate sample, c2 - benign, c3, atypia, c4- ssuspicious of malignancy, c5 - malignant

Question 2

what is normal breast histopathology

Answer 2

ductal lobular system

Question 3

duct ectasia

Answer 3

40-60 year old women, smoking biggest risk factor, inflammation and dilation of large breast ducks, poorly defined palpable periaeolar mass with thick white nipple secretions.cytology protinaeous and macrophages

Question 4

fat necrosis

Answer 4

painless breast mass, skin thickening, causes, trauma, radiotherapy, surgery, cytology empty spaces, histiocytes and giant cells

Question 5

fibrocytic disease

Answer 5

different epithelium responses to hromones, breast mouse, young women 20-30, shelling out is curative, fna cytology branching sheets of epithelium, bare bpolar nuclei and stroma

Question 6

duct papilloma

Answer 6

benign papillary tumour arising within the duct system of breast can lead to tumour so must remove surgically.

Question 7

radial scar

Answer 7

needs to be exised, stellate sclerosing lesion

Question 8

types of carcinoma in situ

Answer 8

lobular (always incidental finding on biopsy as no microcalcifications or stromal reactions, 20-40% bilateral, cells lack e-cadherin) and ductal (ducts filled with ATYPICAL epithelial cells.

Question 9

basal like carcinoma

Answer 9

histologically, often associated with BRCA,

Question 10

invasie breast carcinoma

Answer 10

ductal, lobular, tubular and mucinus