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Breast-malignant, males, children
Author: Nat Pernick, M.D, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.
Reviewer: Daniel Visscher, M.D., University of Michigan Hospitals, February 2009 (see Reviewers page)
Revised: 8 October 2009
Last major update: October 2009 - in progress
Copyright: (c) 2002-2009, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.
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In situ carcinoma: DCIS-general, DCIS variants: apocrine, basal-like, clinging, comedo, cribriform, cystic hypersecretory, micropapillary, mucinous, neuroendocrine, papillary, signet ring cell, solid, solid papillary, spindle cell, squamous cell / Bowen’s disease //; LCIS-classic, LCIS-pleomorphic, ductal intraepithelial neoplasia (DIN), mammary intraepithelial neoplasia, Paget’s disease, anaplastic Paget’s
Breast cancer: general, axillary nodes, EGFR, HER2, histologic grading, hormone receptors, microinvasive, pregnancy,
prognostic factors: general, angiolymphatic invasion, fibrotic focus, multigene products
risk factors, sentinel nodes, spread/metastases, suspicious, WHO classification
Carcinoma subtypes: general, acinic cell, adenoid cystic, adenosquamous, apocrine, basal cell-nipple, basal-like, BRCA1, BRCA2, central acellular, cribriform, cystic hypersecretory, ductal NOS and variants: general, choriocarcinomatous, melanotic, mixed, osteoclastic giant cells, pleomorphic //; glycogen rich, inflammatory, intracystic papillary, intralymphatic, lipid rich, lobular carcinoma and variants: classic, alveolar, basal-like, histiocytoid, pleomorphic, signet-ring, solid, trabecular //; luminal, lymphoepithelioma-like, medullary, metaplastic carcinoma and subtypes: general, fibromatosis-like, matrix producing, spindle cell //; metastases to breast, micropapillary, mixed ductal and lobular, mucin-producing, mucinous, mucinous cystadenocarcinoma, mucoepidermoid, myoepithelial, neuroendocrine carcinoma and variants: general, solid, large cell //; oncocytic, papillary , sebaceous, secretory, signet ring, small cell, squamous cell, squamous cell-acantholytic, tall-cell like, tubular, tubulolobular
Sarcoma: general, angiosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, liposarcoma, low grade myofibroblastic sarcoma, MFH, MPNST, osteosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, sarcoma NOS, stromal sarcoma
Other malignancies: lymphoma, myeloid sarcoma, plasmacytoma, Rosai-Dorfman
Childhood tumors: general, juvenile fibroadenoma, juvenile papillomatosis, carcinoma
Male tumors: general, gynecomastia, myofibroblastoma, papilloma, carcinoma, metastases
Miscellaneous: treatment effect - chemotherapy, cryoprobe, hormone therapy, radiation therapy //; frozen sections, grossing, features to report, staging
Go to Breast-nonmalignant chapter
AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (6th Ed)
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)
Websites (images): Digital Atlas of Breast Pathology, Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Johns Hopkins Breast Center, National Institutes of Health, Online Management of Breast Diseases, PathConsult, PathoPic
Virtual slides - USCAP, vSlides
Journal search terms: each disease entity listed
Please refer to these primary references for more detailed discussions and photographs
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