Difference between revisions of "Breast pathology"

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 ==Apocrine metaplasia==
+===General===
+*Benign/not significant.  Can be considered to be pretty wallpaper in the house of breast pathology.
+===Etiology===
+*Increased number of mitochondria.
+**In other body sites this has different names, e.g. ''[[Hurthle cell change]]'' (thyroid), ''[[oncocytoma|oncocytic]] change'' (kidney - [[oncocytoma]], thyroid).
 ===Histology===
+Features:
 *Eosinophilic cytoplasm.
 Note:
 *Apocrine changes, i.e. cytoplasmic eosinophilia, can appear in malignant tumours; eosinophilia doesn't make it benign.
-===Etiology===
-*Increased number of mitochondria.
-**In other body sites this has different names, e.g. ''[[Hurthle cell change]]'' (thyroid), ''[[oncocytoma|oncocytic]] change'' (kidney - [[oncocytoma]], thyroid).
-===Significance===
+==Fibrocystic change==
-*Not significant.  Can be considered to be pretty wallpaper in the house of breast pathology.
+===General===
+*Really common.
+*Benign.
+===Microscopic===
+Features:
+*Dilated glands - '''key change'''.
+**Glands normal: two cell layers present.
+*Often seen together with ''apocrine metaplasia''.
 ==Columnar cell change==