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SM_196: Histology and Pathology of Breast Flashcards

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____ is most common site of origin of breast cancer

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Upper outer is most common site of origin of breast cancer

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Describe breast anatomy

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Breast anatomy

  • Skin and superficial fascia
  • Nipple and areola
  • Breast parenchyma: glandular epithelium (15-20 lobes), fibrous stroma, fibroadipose tissue
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Describe histology of the nipple areolar complex

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Nipple areolar complex

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Breast ductal system consists of ____, ____, and ____

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Breast ductal system consists of terminal duct lobular unit, breast duct, and nipple ducts

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Describe basic breast histology

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Basic breast histology

  • White: fat
  • Pink: fibrous stroma
  • Purple: epithelial cells
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Describe histology of breast ducts

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Breast ducts

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____ are the site of most breast lesions including cancer

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Terminal duct lobular units are the site of most breast lesions including cancer

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Younger breast has more ____ stroma on histology

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Younger breast has more fibrous stroma on histology

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Older breast has more ____ stroma on histology

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Older breast has more fatty stroma on histology

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Describe histological changes in breast during pregnancy and lactation

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Pregnancy and lactation breast

  • Number of lobules and acini within each lobule increase at expense of intralobular and extralobular stroma
  • Luminal epithelial cells with cytoplasmic vacuoles, often protruding into lumen
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Postmenopausal breast consists largely of ____

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Postmenopausal breast consists largely of adipose tissue containing a few residual breast ducts and blood vessels

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Inflammatory processes of breast are ___, ___, and ___

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Inflammatory processes of breast are acute mastitis, duct ectasia, and fat necrosis

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Fever and enlarged red painful breast mass in nursing mother (during lactation) is ___

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Fever and enlarged red painful breast mass in nursing mother (during lactation) is acute mastitis

  • Most commonly caused by Staphylococcus aureus entering through cracks on the nipple
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Describe pathology of acute mastitis

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Acute mastitis pathology

  • Neutrophils (polymorphonuclear cells: acute inflammatory cells) infiltrate the breast (mast) and cause inflammation (itis)
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Older multiparous women with poorly defined palpable periareolar mass, unilateral discharge, and nipple pain / retraction is ____

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Older multiparous women with poorly defined palpable periareolar mass, unilateral discharge, and nipple pain / retraction is ductal ectasia

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Describe pathology of ductal ectasia

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Ductal ectasia pathology

  • Ducts are dilated (ectasia) with chronic inflammation (mononuclear cells without multilobulation: lymphocytes and plasma cells)
  • Fibrosis and squamous metaplasia
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Hard breast mass, calcifications on mammogram, due to trauma is ____

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Hard breast mass, calcifications on mammogram, due to trauma is fat necrosis

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Describe pathology of fat necrosis

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Fat necrosis pathology

  • Hemorrhage and neutrophils early
  • Macrophages, fibrosis, and calcifications
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This is ____

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This is acute mastitis

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___ is the most common breast finding and includes non-proliferative and proliferative lesions

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Fibrocystic changes is the most common breast finding and includes non-proliferative and proliferative lesions

  • 20-50 years
  • Cyclic breast pain
  • Engorgement
  • Nodularity
  • Nipple discharge
  • Can also be asymptomatic and associated with mammographic findings
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____ involve the terminal duct lobular unit and are dilated ducts with inner luminal epithelial cells and outer myoepithelial cells

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Simple cysts involve the terminal duct lobular unit and are dilated ducts with inner luminal epithelial cells and outer myoepithelial cells

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Non-proliferative breast lesions are ____, ____, and ____

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Non-proliferative breast lesions are cysts, apocrine metaplasia, and fibroadenoma

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Describe pathology of apocrine metaplasia

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Apocrine metaplasia pathology

  • Apocrine: glands that release some of their cytoplasm in their secretions (apical snouts)
  • Large polygonal cells lining ducts
  • Eosinophilic (red) finely granular cytoplasm
  • Small nuceli with prominent nucleoli
  • Metaplasia: change in type of lining epitheliu,m
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Firm, rubbery, mobile, rounded breast mass is ____

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Firm, rubbery, mobile, rounded breast mass is fibroadenoma

  • Most common benign neoplasm of female breast
  • 20-35 years old
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Mass with smooth circumscribed borders oriented parallel to skin on US is ___

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Mass with smooth circumscribed borders oriented parallel to skin on US is fibroadenoma

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Describe pathology of fibroadenoma

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Fibroadenoma pathology

  • Circumscribed mass with whorled cut surface
  • Biphasic: neoplastic stroma (fibro) induces a glandular epithelial proliferation (adeno), mass forming (oma)
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Fibroadenoma has ___

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Fibroadenoma has well defined circumscribed border between fibroadenoma and normal fatty breast tissue

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Phyllodes tumor is ___ breast lesion that presents as ____ in women aged ____

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Phyllodes tumor is NOT benign breast lesion that presents as a rapidly enlarging mass in women aged 30-35 years

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Describe pathology of phyllodes tumor

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Phyllodes tumor pathology

  • Leaf like
  • Benign to sarcomatous proliferation

(requires wide margin, high recurrence rate)

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This is ___

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This is fibroadenoma

31
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Describe relative risk of benign breast disease

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Benign breast disease

  • Non-proliferative: minimal to no increase in risk for developing breast carcinoma
  • Proliferative without atypia: 1.5-2x
  • Proliferative with atypia: 4-5x
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Proliferative breast lesions without atypia are ____, ____, ____, and ____

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Proliferative breast lesions without atypia are usual ductal hyperplasia, sclerosing adenosis, radial scar, and intraductal papilloma

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Describe pathology of usual ductal hyperplasia

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Usual ductal hyperplasia pathology

  • Usual: cells look like cells in background terminal duct lobular units (no atypia)
  • Ductal: cells that proliferate
  • Hyperplasia: increase in cell number
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Describe pathology of sclerosing adenosis

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Sclerosing adenosis pathology

  • Lobulocentric proliferation: centered around normal terminal duct lobular units
  • Sclerosing: fibrosis of stroma
  • Adenosis: increased number of acini
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Describe pathology of radial scar

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Radial scar pathology

  • Radial: stellate configuration
  • Scar: central nidus of small entrapped glands in hyalinized stroma
  • Dilated glands at periphery with cysts or hyperplasia
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Mass below nipple with bloody nipple discharge is ____

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Mass below nipple with bloody nipple discharge is intraductal papilloma

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Describe pathology of intraductal papilloma

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Intraductal papilloma pathology

  • Intraductal: involves large excretory ducts
  • Papillae: fibrovascular stalks lined by both myoepithelial cells (inner) and benign epithelial cells (outer)
  • Mass forming (oma)
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This is ____

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This is usual ductal hyperplasia

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Proliferative breast lesions with atypia are ____ and ____

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Proliferative breast lesions with atypia are atypical ductal hyperplasia and atypical lobular hyperplasia

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Pathology of atypical ductal hyperplasia

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Atypical ductal hyperplasia pathology

  • Atypical: cytologic atypia (monotonous cells) and architectural atypia (Roman bridges, cribriform structures)
  • Ductal: luminal epithelial proliferation
  • Hyperplasia: increased number of cells
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Late 40s, either breast and any quadrant, nonspecific presentation, and microcalcifications on mammography is ____

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Late 40s, either breast and any quadrant, nonspecific presentation, and microcalcifications on mammography is atypical ductal hyperplasia

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Incidental finding on core breast biopsy, multicentric and bilateral is ____

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Incidental finding on core breast biopsy, multicentric and bilateral is atypical lobular hyperplasia

  • Multicentric: involves multiple quadrants of some breast
  • Bilateral: involves both breasts
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Describe atypical lobular hyperplasia on pathology

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Atypical lobular hyperplasia on pathology

  • Lobular: uniform, small, dyscohesive cells
  • Round nuclei that may be peripheral: look like plasma cells
  • Intracytoplasmic lumens
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One duct is partially involved by monotonous ductal epithelial cells that form punched out secondary lumens (cribriform spaces).

This is ____

Relative risk of developing breast cancer is ____

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One duct is partially involved by monotonous ductal epithelial cells that form punched out secondary lumens (cribriform spaces).

This is atypical ductal hyperplasia

Relative risk of developing breast cancer is 4-5 fold

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In situ carcinoma consists of ____ and ____

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In situ carcinoma consists of ductal carcinoma in situ and lobular carcinoma in situ

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Describe in situ carcinoma

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In situ carcinoma

  • In situ: in its original place or position
  • Carcinoma: cancer arising from epithelial cells
  • Noninvasive: has not penetrated the limiting basement membrane and remains within this normal boundary (intact outer layer of myoepithelial cells)
  • Arise from terminal duct lobular unit
    Relative risk of cancer is 8-10x
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Ductal carcinoma in situ ___

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Ductal carcinoma in situ fills and disorts duct spaces

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Lobular carcinoma in situ ____

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Lobular carcinoma in situ expands but does not alter acini of lobules

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Ductal carcinoma is frequently associated with ____

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Ductal carcinoma is frequently associated with calcifications

(secretory material or necrotic debris)

(5% in unscreened and 40% in screened populations)

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Describe pathology of ductal carcinoma in situ

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Ductal carcinoma in situ pathology

  • Architectural patterns: solid, cribriform, papillary
  • Comedo: extensive central necrosis
  • Nuclear grade
    • Low (bland and monotonous): cells look like each other
    • High (pleimorophic cells): cells with varying sizes and shapes
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Lobular carcinoma in situ is rarely associated with ___

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Lobular carcinoma in situ is RARELY associated with calcifications

(incidental)

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Describe pathology of lobular carcinoma in situ

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Lobular carcinoma in situ pathology

  • Uniform monomorphic cells with bland round nuclei in loosely cohesive clusters
  • Intracellular mucin
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This is ___

Treatment involves ___

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This is ductal carcinoma in situ

Treatment involves surgery

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Invasive breast carcinoma consists of ___ and ___

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Invasive breast carcinoma consists of invasive ductal carcinoma and invasive lobular carcinoma

  • Invasive: has penetrated the limiting basement membrane, spreading beyond it, and infiltrating into the stroma
  • Characterized by a lack of the outer layer of myoepithelial cells: negative for myoepithelial cell makrers such as p53 and smooth muscle myosin heavy chain
  • Desmoplastic stroma: pale blue-gray stroma reacting to the infiltration
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Hard palpable fixed breast that comprises 70-80% of all breast cancers is ____

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Hard palpable fixed breast that comprises 70-80% of all breast cancers is invasive ductal carcinoma

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Describe pathology of invasive ductal carcinoma

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Invasive ductal carcinoma pathology

  • Well developed tubules with low grade nuclei to sheets of pleomorphic cells
  • 2/3 express estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) and 1/3 overexpress HER2
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____ comprise 20% of all breast cancers and 10-20% are bilateral

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Invasive lobular carcinoma comprise 20% of all breast cancers and 10-20% are bilateral

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Describe pathology of invasive lobular carcinoma

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Invasive lobular carcinoma pathology

  • Cells identical to atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ
  • Mutations in E-cadherin (surface protein that allows for normal cohesion of breast epithelium)
  • Invade individually and aligned in single file strands
  • Almost all epxress ER and PR, rarely overexpress HER2
  • Metastasis: CSF, serosal surfaces, GI tract, ovary, uterus, bone marrow
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This is ___

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This is invasive ductal carcinoma

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