Pathology Of Breast Flashcards

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Explain the normal characteristics of breast

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1.Terminal duct -lobular unit, 2. lobular stroma, 3. nipple and areola; smooth muscle larger ducts and lactiferous sinuses, 4.interlobular stroma, 5.Pectoralis muscle, 6. chest wall and ribs

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What pathologies occur in terminal ducts

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Cyst
Sclerosing adenosis
Small duct papilloma
Hyperplasia
Atypical hyperplasia
Carcinoma
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Pathologies of lobular stroma

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Fibroadenoma

Phyllodes tumor

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Pathologies of nipple and areola

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Duct ectasia
Recurrent subareolar abscess
Solitary ducal papilloma
Paget disease

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Pathologies of interlobular stroma

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Fat necrosis
Lipoma
Fibrous tumor
Fibromatosis
Sarcoma
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What are the three main developments disorders of breast

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Milk line remnant
Accessory maxillary breast tissue
Congenital nipple inverse

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Explain milk line remnants

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  • Extra breasts or maple from residual epidermal thickening along the milk line (which extends from the axilla to the perineum)
  • most common to clinical attention as a result of painful premenstual enlargement
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Explain accessory maxillary breast tissue

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  • Normal ducal system extends beyond the normal breast area, and into the subcutaneous tissue of the chest wall or the armpit.
  • it’s important to know it you have this if you have a prophylactic mastectomy for breast cancer. Other wise it you don’t take out the accessory tissue too you’ll still be at risk for getting breast cancer
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Explain congenital nipple inversion

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  • failure of the nipple to evert during development
  • common; may be unilateral
  • of little clinical significance; often correct spontaneously during pregnancy (or can be corrected by fraction)
  • acquired nipple inversions however is clinically important (because it may indicate the presence an invasive cancer underneath the nipple)
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What is the most prominent symptoms

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Palpable mass

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Causes of lumps

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  • fibrocystio changes
  • benign cysts
  • fibroadenoma
  • invasive carcinoma = malignant
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Explain fibro cystic changes

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Miscellaneous changes is the female breast -consequences of an exaggeration and distortion of the cyclic breast changes that occur normally during the menstrual cycle
* changes are divided into non-proliferative and proliferative

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Namer non proliferative breast changes

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Duct ectasia
Cysts
Apocrine changes
Mild hyperplasia
Adenosis
Eibroddenoma without complex features
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Proliferative disease without atypia

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  • Moderate or florid hyperplasia
  • sclerosing adenosis
  • Papiloma
  • complex sclerosing lesions (radial scar)
  • fibroadenomas with complex features
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Proliferative disease with Atypia

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Atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH)

Atypical lobular hyperplasia (ALH)

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16
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Name the carcinoma in sites diseases

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LCIS= lobular carcinoma in situ
DCIS= duct al carcinoma in situ
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What are proliferative changes

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  • A range of proliferative lesions within the ductules, the terminal ducts and sometimes the lobules
  • epithelial hyperplasia- mild to atypical
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What are non-proliferative changes

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  • Characterised by an increased fibrous strong associated with dilatation of the ducts and formation of cyst of varying size.
  • multifocal and bilateral
  • epithelial lining may undergo apocrine metaplasia
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What is sclerosing adenosine

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Clinical and morphology picture may mimic those of carcinoma

The involved terminal duct lobular unit is enlarged and the acini are compress and distorted by denser stroma

20
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What illnesses have no risk to become cancer

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Fibrosis, cystic changes, apocrine metaplasia, mild hyperplasia

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What illnesses are slightly at risk to become cancer

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  • Moderator to florid hyperplasia
  • Ductal papilomatosis
  • Sclerosing adenosis
  • fibroadenoma
22
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What illnesses have a high risk of becoming cancer

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Atypical hyperplasia

Positive family history

23
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Name the side benign inflammatory disorders of the breast

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  1. Acute mastitis
  2. Periductal mastitis
  3. Mammary duct ectasia
  4. Fat necrosis
  5. lymphocytic mastopathy
  6. Granulomatous mastitis
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What duct ectasia

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Prominence of the lymphocytic and plasma cell infiltration and occasional Granulomas in the periductal stroma

  • induration of breast
  • retraction of the nipple
25
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What happens during inflammation of the breast

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Acute signs= traumatic fat necrosis
Acute inflammation = ducts, inspissation of secretions, through fissures in the nipples, dermatitis
Mammary duct ectasia is a non-bacterial inflammation of the breast associated with inspissation of breast secretion in the main excretory ducts (40-50 years)