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*[[Sclerosing adenosis]]. | *[[Sclerosing adenosis]]. | ||
==Metaplastic carcinoma== | ==Metaplastic breast carcinoma== | ||
*[[AKA]] ''metaplastic carcinoma''. | |||
===General=== | ===General=== | ||
*May be difficult to | *May be difficult to diagnose. | ||
*Prognosis - poor. | *Prognosis - poor. | ||
===Microscopic=== | ===Microscopic=== | ||
Features:<ref name=metaplastic>URL: [http://www.breastpathology.info/Case_of_the_month/2007/COTM_0807%20discussion.html http://www.breastpathology.info/Case_of_the_month/2007/COTM_0807%20discussion.html]. Accessed on: 28 November 2010.</ref> | Features - one of the following:<ref name=metaplastic>URL: [http://www.breastpathology.info/Case_of_the_month/2007/COTM_0807%20discussion.html http://www.breastpathology.info/Case_of_the_month/2007/COTM_0807%20discussion.html]. Accessed on: 28 November 2010.</ref><ref name=pmid15868445>{{Cite journal | last1 = Barnes | first1 = PJ. | last2 = Boutilier | first2 = R. | last3 = Chiasson | first3 = D. | last4 = Rayson | first4 = D. | title = Metaplastic breast carcinoma: clinical-pathologic characteristics and HER2/neu expression. | journal = Breast Cancer Res Treat | volume = 91 | issue = 2 | pages = 173-8 | month = May | year = 2005 | doi = 10.1007/s10549-004-7260-y | PMID = 15868445 }}</ref> | ||
#Malignant mesenchymal elements - either: | |||
##Spindle cells. | |||
##Osseous, chondroid or rhabdoid differentiation. | |||
* | #Squamous component. | ||
#*Non-skin [[squamous cell carcinoma]] of the breast = metaplastic breast carcinoma. | |||
Images: | |||
* | *[http://www.breastpathology.info/Case_of_the_month/2007/COTM_0807%20discussion.html Metaplastic carcinoma (breastpathology.info)].<ref name=metaplastic>URL: [http://www.breastpathology.info/Case_of_the_month/2007/COTM_0807%20discussion.html http://www.breastpathology.info/Case_of_the_month/2007/COTM_0807%20discussion.html]. Accessed on: 28 November 2010.</ref> | ||
*[http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case116/micro.html Metaplastic carcinoma (upmc.edu)]. | |||
====Subclassification==== | ====Subclassification==== | ||