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'''Paget disease of the breast''', also '''Paget's disease of the breast''', is a thingy seen in the [[breast]]... and elsewhere.
'''Paget disease of the breast''', also '''Paget's disease of the breast''', is a thingy seen in the [[breast]]... and elsewhere - except bone.


There is also a ''[[Paget disease of the bone]]'' - just to make things confusing.  This is dealt with in the ''[[bone]]'' article and has nothing (from a pathologic perspective) to do with the Paget disease discussed in this article; these two things just happened to be discovered by the same guy.
There is also a ''[[Paget disease of the bone]]'' - just to make things confusing.  This is dealt with in the ''[[bone]]'' article and has nothing (from a pathologic perspective) to do with the Paget disease discussed in this article; these two things just happened to be discovered by the same guy.


It is subdivided into:
Non-bone Paget disease is subdivided into:
*Mammary Paget disease.
#Mammary Paget disease.
*Extramammary Paget disease.
#Extramammary Paget disease.
 
Histologically, i.e. under the [[microscope]], the above are essentially identically; however, the association (and prognosis) are quite different!


==Mammary Paget disease==
==Mammary Paget disease==
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