Difference between revisions of "Breast pathology"

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*Lactational adenoma generally arises in during or in the few weeks after pregnancy.
*Lactational adenoma generally arises in during or in the few weeks after pregnancy.
*May be present focally in non-pregnant females.
*May be present focally in non-pregnant females.
*"Lactational adenoma"- circumscribed mass displacing the normal breast architecture (hyperplasia plus functional/physiologic change)
*"Lactational change" normal breast tissue architecture preserved (functional/physiologic change).


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*This hair splitting is clinically irrelevant-- both are benign.  Also, experts use the terms interchangeably.<ref name=pmid2879437>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Tavassoli | first1 = FA. | last2 = Yeh | first2 = IT. | title = Lactational and clear cell changes of the breast in nonlactating, nonpregnant women. | journal = Am J Clin Pathol | volume = 87 | issue = 1 | pages = 23-9 | month = Jan | year = 1987 | doi =  | PMID = 2879437 }}
*This hair splitting is clinically irrelevant-- both are benign.  Also, experts use the terms interchangeably.<ref name=pmid2879437>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Tavassoli | first1 = FA. | last2 = Yeh | first2 = IT. | title = Lactational and clear cell changes of the breast in nonlactating, nonpregnant women. | journal = Am J Clin Pathol | volume = 87 | issue = 1 | pages = 23-9 | month = Jan | year = 1987 | doi =  | PMID = 2879437 }}
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*Circumscribed mass - "lactational adenoma" (hyperplasia not true neoplasia)
*Lactational ''change'' occurs within recognizable normal breast tissue architecture.


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