Breast Pathology Dobson LO's Flashcards
What is poland syndrome a result of?
Loss of pectoralis muscles
What arteries supply breast and what lymph nodes drain it?
- Lateral thoracic and internal thoracic which give off mammary arteries
- Drains mostly to the axillary lymph nodes and some to internal mammary lymph nodes
Clinical significance of milk line remnants, accessory breast tissue and inverted nipples?
- Milk line remnants can result in supranumery nipples
- accessory breast tissue is usually in axilla and can pose a risk for breast cancer
- Congenital inverted nipples are benign and can evert on own, but acquired inverted nipples are omnious as it is usually caused by cancer or inflammatory disesase
Common presenting symptoms of breast disease and clinical correlations to benign and malignant conditions.
- Increased bumpiness, pain, nipple discharge, and inflammed breast are common complaints
- Majority of symptomatic breast lesions are benign
- soft round rubbery moveable mass, cysts & fibroadenomas are common palpable masses
- Malignant: hard irregular immobile, most common palpable is invasive ductal carcinoma, 10% of breast cancers present with pain, 45% with sx
- upper outer quadrant
- bloody discharge suspect cancer
Describe malignant mammogram features.
- Irregularly shaped densities
- Small irregular numerous and clustered calcifications
Benign mammogram findings and what can cause the calcifications?
- Round densities
- Calcifications can form on secretions, fibroadenomas, and sclerosing adenomas
What happens when the BI-RADS score goes from 3 to 4?
- Requires a biopsy now
- 3 is most likely benign follow up in 3 mo
- 4 is suspicious and most likely should be biopsied
- 5 is highly suggestive of malignancy and needs biopsy
What are the inflammatory disorders fo the breast? (6)
- Acute mastitis
- SMOLD
- Duct ectasia
- Fat necrosis
- Lymphocytic mastopathy
- Granulomatous mastitis
When does Acute mastitis occur and how does it present? What is in differential?
- Red swollen breast usually occurs within first month of breast feeding can lead to S. aureus infection
- Inflammatory breast cancer mimics acute mastitis by blocking vessels with tumor emboli, need to differentiate these two bc this cancer is very deadly and presents with red swollen breast
How does Squamous metaplasia of lactiferous ducts (SMOLD) present, association, at risk for? (extra info from robbins)
- Painful red subareolar mass mimicing a bacterial abscess
- nipple inverts
- 90% associated with smokers also vitamin A deficiency
- at risk for SCC
- nipple ducts undergo keratinizing squamous metaplasia and keratin sheds blocking the ducts causing eventual rupture
- chronic granulomatous inflammatory response occurs and recurrence is common
Duct ectasia clinical presentation, who does it occur in, histology, what does it mimic?
- Periareolar mass with thick white secretions ,+/- skin retractions
- occurs in 50-60’s in multiparous women
- lipid laden macrophages in dilated ducts
- Mimics invasive carcinoma clinically and radiographically- need to perform ductography
Fat necrosis association, how does it present, histo and gross appearance?
- mass of fat necrosis due to breast trauma or surgery
- mimics cancer as a painless mass with skin retraction/thickening
- acute lesion is hemorrhagic with liquafactive necrosis in center and neutrophils and macrophages eventually get replacedb y scar tissue
- ill defined firm grey white nodules with chalky foci
Lymphocytic mastopathy presentation, association,?
- single or multiple hard palpable masses or mammorgram densities
- common in those with DM type I, AI thyroid disease
- Needs to be distinguished from cancer
Granulomatous mastitis association and who does it occur in?
- Associated with GPA, polyangiitis, sarcoidosis, TB or localized infection to breast
- only in parous women due to a hypersensitivity reaction to antigen’s during lactation
What are the Nonproliferative benign epithelial lesions? Explain them. Is there an increased risk for cancer?
- Cystic change:
- granular eosinophilic cytoplasm resembling normal sweat apocrine glands
- calcificatiosn common from secretions resulting in fibrosis
- concern when solitary, but cysts dissapear with FNA
- Fibrosis:
- Adenosis:
- individual mass occurs with breast feeding due to the increased number of acini per lobule
NOT associated with cancer risk
Proliferative lesions without atypia? Explain. Cancer risk?
- small risk for cancer but not a direct precursor, more of a predictor of risk
- Epithelial hyperplasia:
- incr. in # of luminal and myoepithelial cells that distend ducts
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Sclerosing adenosis:
- incr. # acini that are compressed and distended in central part of lesion histologically mimics invasive carcinoma, but dense stroma is in swirling pattern with a circumscribed border
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Complex Sclerosing:
- looks bad but has benign histology
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Papilloma:
- bloody nipple discharge
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Gynecomastia:
- imbalance btw estrogen and androgens
- DISCOS
- digoxin, isoniazid, spironolactone, cimetidine, (o)estrogen, Stilbestol
- DISCOS
- imbalance btw estrogen and androgens