Robbins Ch 23 - Breast Flashcards
Break shows more numerous branchings of terminal ducts and larger lobules, lactational changes are occuring
Findings during pregnancy
Breast lobules decrease in number and size, interlobular stroma is replaces by adipose tissue making mammograms are more radiolucent
Findings with increasing age
MC palpable lesions
Cysts, fibroadenomas, invasive carcinomas
MC area for carcinomas
Upper outer quadrant of the breast
Drugs that can cause milky discharge
OCs, tricyclic antidepressants, methyldopa, phenothiazines
Bloody or serous breast d/c in a non-pregnant F is MCly from
Large duct papilloma and cysts
Clusters of apocrine cysts, hyalineized fibroadenomas, sclerosing adenosis
Calicifications on mammogram - b9 lesions
Small, irregular, numerous and clustered calcifications on mammography
MCly ass’d with malignancy
Breast ca that is MCly detected as mammographic calcifications
Ductal carcinoma in situ
Breast is radiodense or white in appearance, there is a predominanace of fibrous interlobular stroma with a small amount of adipose tissue, lobules are small and are invested in loose cellular intralobular stroma
Findings in young women
Occurs during the first month of breastfeeding and is cause by local bacterial infection of the breast
Acute mastitis
MCCs of acute mastitis
Staphlylococcus > streptocci
Causes acute mastitis with breast single or multiple abscesses
Staph
Causes acute mastitis that spreads as cellulitis
Streptococci
Recurrent subareolar abcesses, periductal mastitis, zuska disease
Sq metaplasia of lactiferous ducts
Keratinizing sq metaplasia of the nipple duct leasing to dilation and rupture
Sq metaplasia of the lactiferous ducts
Sq metaplasia of the lactiferous ducts occurs MCly in
smokers
Thick, white nipple secretions, skin retraction, multiparous F in 5th/6th decade
Duct ectasia
Duct fulled with inspissated secretions and numerous lipid-laden MPs, potentially granuloma formation
Duct ectasia
Duct ectasia can mimic
Invasive breast carcinoma
Hemorrhagic areas with central liquefactive necrosis that appear as firm, gray/white nodeuls with small chalky-white foci grossly
Fat necrosis of the breast
Hard palpable mass(es) with lymphocytic infiltrate, MCly in women with T1 DM or autoimmune thyroid dz
Lymphocytic mastopathy
Granulomatous mastitis only occurs in
Parous women
Caused by HSN reaction to antigens expressed during lactation
Granulomatous mastitis
MCC of cystic neutrophilic granulomatous mastitis
Corynebacteria
Breast cyts diagnosis is confirmed by
Disappearance of mass after FNA of contents
Increased number of acini per lobule
Adenosis
Clonal proliferation ass’d with deletions of ch 16q
Flat epi atypia of the breast
Palpable masses in pregnant or lactating F that are an exaggerated local response to gestational hormones
Lactational adeomas
Increased numbers of luminal andmyoepithelial cells that fill and distend breast ducts and lobules
Epithelial hyperplasia
Increased in acini that are compressed, distorted in the center with stromal fibrosis potentially compressing the lumen; acini are arraged in a swirling pattern with a well circumscribed outer border
Sclerosing adenosis
Central nidus of small tubules entrapped in a densely fibrotic stroma with numerous projections, varying degrees of cyst formation and hyperplasia
Radial sclerosing lesion
More than 80% of duct papillomas produce
Nipple discharge
Imbalance btwn estrogens and androgens can result in
Gynecomastia