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Apocrine metaplasia of the breast (view source)
Revision as of 18:32, 10 March 2016
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==General== | ==General== | ||
*Benign/not significant. Can be considered to be pretty wallpaper in the house of breast pathology. | *Benign/not significant. Can be considered to be pretty wallpaper in the house of breast pathology. | ||
*Very common in adults. | |||
*''Apocrine lesions'' as a group are usually benign, some pre-neoplastic and some malignant.<ref name=pmid18042688>{{Cite journal | last1 = Wells | first1 = CA. | last2 = El-Ayat | first2 = GA. | title = Non-operative breast pathology: apocrine lesions. | journal = J Clin Pathol | volume = 60 | issue = 12 | pages = 1313-20 | month = Dec | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1136/jcp.2006.040626 | PMID = 18042688 }}</ref> | |||
===Etiology=== | ===Etiology=== | ||