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Breast (Robbins) Flashcards

1
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Apocrine metaplasia

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Calcifications with densities
Does not cause cancer!
Abundant pink cytoplasm

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Fibrocytic change

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Painless or painful, non-movable, dilated ducts, in premenopausal women
Screen for breast cancer

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Mammary duct ectasia

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Dilated ducts, greenish-brown nipple discharge
Mass present!
Multiparous postmenopausal women

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4
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Periductal mastitis

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Think smokers! Due to Vit A deficiency

Subareolar mass+ nipple retraction

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Intraductal Papilloma

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Premenopausal women with bloody nipple discharge

Finger-like projection lined by epithelial and myoepithelial cells

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6
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Intranodular cirrhosis

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Can lead to bilateral gynecomastia

Seen in alcoholics

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Most significant risk factor for lobular carcinoma

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Atypical hyperplasia

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8
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Trastuzumab

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Rx for HER2/neu BC (-ve for ER/PR)

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HER2/neu

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Epidermal growth factor

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10
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Type A Luminal BC

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ER +ve, HER2 -ve.

Low risk of recurrence. Responsive to estrogen therapy

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DCIS

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My not produce a mass, large atypical cells in cribriform pattern

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12
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Does Paget disease of the breast represent an underlying carcinoma?

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Yes!

Eczematous nipple

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LoBular CIS

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Tends to be BILATERAL, ill-defined
Single file metastasis
No E-cadherin

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14
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Infiltrating Ductal carcinomas tend to produce what symptoms in what patients

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Axillary lymphadenopathy and unilateral breast mass

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15
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Medullary carcinoma

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High in BRCA1 patients, poorly differentiated, triple negative, lymphoid infiltrates

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16
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Major risk factor for male breast cancer

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Old age

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17
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Rx for triple negative NST no special type BC

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Chemotherapy

Why? Too aggressive for surgery and radiation

18
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Nipple retraction is seen in which 2 conditions?

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Chronic mastitis and infiltrating ductal carcinoma

19
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Infiltrating ductal carcinoma

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Orange peel+ nipple retraction

20
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What hormone can cause the shrinkage of a fibroadenoma?

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Estrogen

21
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Do fibroadenomas increase in pregnancy?

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Yes

22
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How are breasts related to sweat glands?

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They are modified sweat glands

23
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What types of cell layers are found in normal breast tissue?

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A luminal (inner) cell layer and a myoepithelial cell layer

24
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When do breasts become hormone sensitive?

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After menarche

25
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What changes are seen in breast during menstruation? Why?

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They are tender

Due to increased estrogen and progesterone

26
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What changes are seen in breast during pregnancy? Why?

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Hyperplasia. To prepare for milk production

27
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What changes are seen in breast during menopause? Why?

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Atrophy

No progesterone or estrogen

28
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Which quadrant of the breast has the most breast tissue?

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Upper outer quadrant

29
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Define galactorrhea

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Milk let down outside of lactation.

30
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Is galctorrhea cancer-related?

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No

31
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What causes galactorrhea?

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Prolactinoma drugs and nipple stimulation

32
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Acute mastitis common cause

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S. aureus

33
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Acute mastitis presentation

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Warm, erythematous skin, (?) pruritic

Could lead to abscess formation

34
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Fat necrosis findings

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Mass on PE, calcifications on mammogram.

Giant cells on histology

35
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Fibrocystic change definition

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Cystic (fibrosis) change of TDLUs

Common in premenopausal women

36
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Fibrocystic change presentation

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Blue benign cells

No increased risk for cancer

37
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How much does ductal hyperplasia increase cancer?

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2x increased risk of developing invasive BC

38
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Sclerosing adenosis

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Fibrosis (Sclerosing) + Increased number of glands (adenosis)

39
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Atypical hyperplasia

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Increased risk of bilateral invasive breast cancer

40
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Phyllodes tumor

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Fibroadenoma with more proliferation of stroma

Leaf-like projections

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