Conditions and Pathologies

Question 1

Abscess

Answer 1

A localized area of infection that is usually very painful.

Common in lactating breasts

Question 2

Polymastia

Answer 2

Accessory breasts

Question 3

Polythelia

Answer 3

Accessory nipples

Question 4

Adenocarcinoma

Answer 4

Cancers that originate in the glandular tissue of the breast: ducts and lobules

Question 5

Adenolipoma

Answer 5

Benign tumor containing fatty and glandular components

Question 6

Adenoma

Answer 6

A benign tumor with gland like structures and intervening supporting stroma

tends to compress rather than invade other tissues

Question 7

Adenosis

Answer 7

A benign breast change marked by an increase in proportion of glandular tissue to other types of tissues in the breast.

Question 8

Amastia

Answer 8

Lack of breast development

Question 9

Apocrine Metaplasia

Answer 9

Benign breast changes in which the cells lining the breast duct become longer and shaped like columns instead of squares

Question 10

Architectural Distortion

Answer 10

a change in the architecture of the breast detected on a mammogram

Question 11

Atrophy/Involution

Answer 11

progressive decrease in the amount of glandular tissue in the breast

typically occurs after menopause