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Breast malignant, males, children
Reviewers: Dina Kandil, M.D., Monika Roychowdhury, M.D., Daniel Visscher, M.D. (see Reviewers page)
Revised: 7 February 2012, last major update February 2012
Copyright: (c) 2001-2012, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.
Table of contents
In situ carcinoma: DCIS - general, 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
Breast cancer: general, axillary nodes, EGFR, HER2, histologic grading,
hormone receptors, microinvasive, pregnancy, 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
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
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LCIS - classic, pleomorphic
other - ductal intraepithelial
neoplasia (DIN), mammary intraepithelial neoplasia, Paget’s disease
prognostic factors: general, angiolymphatic
invasion, fibrotic focus, multigene products
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
frozen sections, grossing, features to report, staging
AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (7th ed)
American Journal of Clinical Pathology
American Journal of Surgical Pathology
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Human Pathology
Modern Pathology
Rosen:
Tumors of the Mammary Gland (AFIP Fascicle, 3rd series, volume 7); 1994
Tavassoli:
Tumours of the Breast and Female Genital Organs (WHO, 2003)
Virtual slides: USCAP, vSlides
Websites: Digital Atlas of Breast Pathology, National Institutes of Health, Online Management of Breast Diseases, PathoPic, Webpathology.com
Please refer to these primary references for more detailed discussions and photographs