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Breast-nonmalignant
Reviewer: Hind Nassar, M.D., Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (see Reviewers
page)
Revised: 8 November 2012, last major update June 2010
Copyright: (c) 2001-2012, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.
Table of contents
General: primary references, WHO classification, embryology, neonatal, thelarche, normal anatomy, normal histology, pregnancy/lactation, pubertal macromastia
Congenital anomalies: amastia/aplasia/hypoplasia, athelia, nipple inversion, supernumerary/accessory glandular tissue
Procedures: biopsy marking devices, cautery artifact, core biopsy, cytology, MRI directed, open biopsy/frozen section, reduction mammoplasty
Inflammatory / infectious: acute mastitis/abscess, chronic inflammation, duct ectasia, fat necrosis, foreign body reaction, fungi, giant cell arteritis, granulomatous mastitis, hemorrhagic necrosis, infarct, lupus mastitis, lymphocytic mastitis, Mondor's disease, nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, ossification, plasma cell mastitis, polyarteritis nodosa, reactive spindle cell nodule, sarcoidosis, sclerosing mastitis, silicone implants-breast, silicone implants-axilla, tuberculosis
Parasites: cysticercosis, echinococcal cyst, filariasis, myiasis, sparganosis
Fibrocystic disease: general, apocrine metaplasia, collagenous spherulosis, columnar cell lesion, cystic hypersecretory hyperplasia, cysts, epithelial ductal hyperplasia, fibroadenomatoid change, fibrosis, microcalcifications, pseudolactational hyperplasia, radial scar
Adenosis: general, adenomyoepithelial, apocrine, blunt duct, microglandular, sclerosing, tubular
Benign tumors / changes: adenomyoepithelioma, amyloid tumor, angiolipoma, apocrine adenoma, atypical or benign vascular proliferations post-radiation, benign stromal spindle cell tumors, Carney’s syndrome, chondrolipoma, clear cell “sugar” tumor, cylindroma, ductal adenoma, eccrine spiradenoma, fibroadenoma, fibroadenoma-cellular, fibromatosis, galactocele, granular cell tumor, gynecomastia-like, hamartoma, hemangioma, hemangiopericytoma, inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, juvenile xanthogranuloma, lactating adenoma, leiomyoma, lipoma, lymphangioma, mucocele, myoepithelioma, myofibroblastoma, nipple adenoma/florid papillomatosis, nodular mucinosis, papilloma, phyllodes-general, phyllodes-benign, phyllodes-borderline, phyllodes-malignant, pleomorphic adenoma, pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia (PASH), sclerosing lobular hyperplasia, spindle cell lipoma, subareolar sclerosing duct hyperplasia, syringomatous adenoma of nipple, tubular adenoma
Atypical hyperplasia: flat epithelial atypia, atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH), atypical lobular hyperplasia (ALH)
Alphabetical Table of Contents
A-E: acute mastitis/abscess, adenomyoepithelial adenosis, adenomyoepithelioma, Adenosis - general, amastia/aplasia/hypoplasia, amyloid tumor, angiolipoma, apocrine adenoma, apocrine adenosis, apocrine metaplasia, athelia, atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH), atypical lobular hyperplasia (ALH), atypical or benign vascular proliferations post-radiation, benign stromal spindle cell tumors, biopsy marking devices, blunt duct adenosis, Carney’s syndrome, cautery artifact, chondrolipoma, chronic inflammation, clear cell “sugar” tumor, collagenous spherulosis, columnar cell lesion, core biopsy, cylindroma, cystic hypersecretory hyperplasia, cysticercosis, cysts, cytology, duct ectasia, ductal adenoma, eccrine spiradenoma, echinococcal cyst, embryology, epithelial ductal hyperplasia
F-N: fat necrosis, fibroadenoma-cellular, fibroadenoma, fibroadenomatoid change, Fibrocystic disease - general, fibromatosis, fibrosis, filariasis, flat epithelial atypia, foreign body reaction, fungi, galactocele, giant cell arteritis, granular cell tumor, granulomatous mastitis, gynecomastia-like, hamartoma, hemangioma, hemangiopericytoma, hemorrhagic necrosis, infarct, inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, juvenile xanthogranuloma, lactating adenoma, leiomyoma, lipoma, lupus mastitis, lymphangioma, lymphocytic mastitis, microcalcifications, microglandular adenosis, Mondor's disease, MRI directed excision, mucocele, myiasis, myoepithelioma, myofibroblastoma, neonatal breast, nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, nipple adenoma/florid papillomatosis, nipple inversion, nodular mucinosis, normal anatomy, normal histology
O-Z: open biopsy/frozen section, ossification, papilloma, phyllodes-general, phyllodes-benign, phyllodes-borderline, phyllodes-malignant, plasma cell mastitis, pleomorphic adenoma, polyarteritis nodosa, pregnancy/lactation, primary references, pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia (PASH), pseudolactational hyperplasia, pubertal macromastia, radial scar, reactive spindle cell nodule, reduction mammoplasty, sarcoidosis, sclerosing adenosis, sclerosing lobular hyperplasia, sclerosing mastitis, silicone implants-axilla, silicone implants-breast, sparganosis, spindle cell lipoma, subareolar sclerosing duct hyperplasia, supernumerary/accessory glandular tissue, syringomatous adenoma of nipple, thelarche, tuberculosis, tubular adenoma, tubular adenosis, WHO classification
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Primary references for Breast chapter
American Journal of Clinical Pathology
American Journal of Surgical Pathology
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Rosen: Tumors of the Mammary Gland (AFIP Fascicle, 3rd series, volume 7); 1994
Rosai, J: Ackerman’s Surgical Pathology (9th Ed), Mosby, 2004
Sternberg, S: Diagnostic Surgical Pathology (4th Ed); Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004
Tavassoli: Tumours of the Breast and Female Genital Organs (WHO, 2003)
Tavassoli: Tumors of the Mammary Gland (AFIP Fascicle, 4th series, volume 10); 2009
Websites (images): Digital Atlas of Breast Pathology, National Institutes of Health, Online Management of Breast Diseases, PathoPic
Virtual slides: University of Iowa, USCAP, vSlides
Please refer to these primary references for more detailed discussions and additional images
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