Solid Benign Breast Lesions Flashcards
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What are the 6 basic types of benign solid breast pathologies?
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- Fibroadenoma
- Phyllodes tumour
- Focal dysplastic papillomatosis
- Nipple adenoma
- Benign soft tissue breast tumours
- Benign skin tumours
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What is the most common benign solid lesion found in women under age 35?
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Fibroadenoma
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FA
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Fibroadenoma
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What is the age range for FAs?
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15-35
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What % of all women have FAs?
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10%
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What % of African-American women have FAs?
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20%
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When can you see FAs in menuopausal women?
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When they are HRT
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What % of FA make up all benign breast pathology?
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50%
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What type of women are more likely to get FAs?
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African American Women
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What does an FA feel like clinically? (4)
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- Firm
- Mobile
- Elliptical shape
- Elastic rubbery consistency
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How fast do FAs normally grow? What the exception?
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- Slow growing
- Pregnancy
- due to influx of hormones
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What 2 elements make up an FA?
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- Epithelial tissue
- Connective tissue
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What kind of patterns do FAs protray?
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Popcorn
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What are 6 characteristics of an FA?
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- Hypoechoic
- Homogenous
- Well circumscribed
- Round/oval
- Thin echogenic capsule
- Posterior enhancement
- sometimes
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What makes an FA complex?
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When septations and calcifications are demonstrated
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How big should an FA be before having a Bx done in it?
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4cm
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If an FA were to have some vascularity to it, where is it typically located?
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On the periphery
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What age range do juvenile FAs occur in?
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10-18
- very young, adolescent women
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How are juvenile FAs typically diagnosed?
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Clinically
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What is the growing pattern for juvenile FAs?
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Extremely fast growing
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How do juvenile FAs typically present?
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With a very large mass that scratches the overlying skin
- often displacing the nipple
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What are characteristics seen on US of a juvenile FA? (5)
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- Round
- Solid mass
- Well defined borders
- Some posterior enhancement
- Shadowing from lateral borders
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What is a papilloma composed of? (2)
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- Lining cells of a lactiferous duct
- Underlying stroma, supportive tissues
- including blood vessels
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What do papilloma often cause? (2)
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- Bleed
- Secrete fluid
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What do Pts with a papilloma often present with?
Spontaneous nipple discharge
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What is the most common cause of bloody nipple discharge?
Papilloma
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Where do papillomas originate from?
Within a lactiferous duct
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Can you typically palpate a papilloma?
No
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What do papillomas do to the ducts?
Dilate them
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What happens if you apply pressure to a papilloma?
Elicit the discharge
- eg. trigger point
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Where are papillomas often located?
Subareolar region
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What are not commonly picked up on mammo? What is the better imaging method?
1. Papilloma
2. Ductogram
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What are 5 characteristics of a papilloma on US?
1. Small
2. Round/oval
3. Well defined
4. Homogenous
5. Hypoechoic
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What are most papillomas connected with?
Vascular stalk
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How fast do papillomas grow?
Slow growing
- non-invasive
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Are papillomas malignant?
No
- but over time they could become (rare)
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What age group do you see Pts with juvenile papillomas?
19-23
- adolescent or young girls
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Up to 50% of patients with juvenile papillomatosis have, what?
First degree relative with a history of breast cancer
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How do juvenile papillomas present as? (2)
1. Painless
2. Solitary and unilateral mass
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Where do juvenile papillomas arise from?
Within the milk duct
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How large can juvenile papillomas typically get?
4cm
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What do juvenile papillomas typically present with?
Nipple discharge
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What are 3 characteristics of juvenile papillomas?
1. Well circumscribed
2. Heterogenous
3. One or several small rounded relatively echo-free cystic areas seen mainly or exclusively near the borders of the lesion
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What kind of appearance do juvenile papilloma have?
Swiss cheese
- multiple small cysts interspersed with dense stroma
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When can phyllodes tumour become malignant?
When they exceed 3cm
- 10% of cases
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What % of phyllodes tumour make up all breasts lesions?
0.3-1.0%
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What is another term for phyllodes tumour?
Cystosarcoma Phyllodes
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What does Phyllodes mean in latin?
Leaf
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What does a phyllodes tumour have?
Leaf like processes that project into cystic spaces within the tumour
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What are 2 risk factors for phyllodes tumours becoming malignant?
1. Cystic spaces over 3cm
2. Over 45 years
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What are 3 characteristics of a phyllodes tumours on US?
1. Hypoechoic
2. Well circumscribed
3. Oval mass
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What is the most common breast sarcoma?
Phyllodes tumour
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How fast do phyllodes tumours grow?
It's a rapidly enlarging breast mass
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What is the average age of getting a phyllodes tumour?
45
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In what type of Pt is a lactating adenoma commonly found?
Pregnant or nursing women
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What are 7 characteristics of a lactating adenoma?
1. Large
2. Oval
3. Well defined
4. Mobile
5. Macrolobulated masses
6. Has fibrotic septae
- eg. echogenic bands within mass
7. Usually demonstrate posterior enhancement
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When do lactating adenomas appear? Regress?
1. When one is lactating
2. After lactation
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What typically occurs at site when lactation stops?
Redness
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What are tubular adenoma composed of?
Proliferating tubules with little intervening stroma
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What are 6 characteristics of a tubular adenoma?
1. Mobile
2. Oval
3. Homogenous
4. Hypoechoic
5. Well circumscribed
6. Little through enhancement
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What is a defining feature of a tubular adenoma?
Tightly packed, punctate calcifications scattered throughout the mass
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What is the most common benign soft tissue tumour found in the body?
Lipoma
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How fast do lipomas grow?
Slow growing
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What is lipomas composed of?
Fatty tissue that form a smooth or slightly lobulated mass enclosed by a thin, fibrous capsule
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What are 5 characteristics of a lipoma? (not on US)
1. Unilateral
2. Palpable
3. Mobile
4. Soft
5. Asymptomatic
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Where are lipomas located? (3)
1. Premammary
2. Retromammary layer
3. Within the axilla
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What are lipomas often confused with?
Lymph nodes
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What are lipomas more compressible than?
FA
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What are 2 other names for hamartoma?
1. Fibroadenolipoma
2. Adenofibrolipoma
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How is a hamartoma described as?
Breast within a breast
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How fast do hamartomas grow?
Slow groing
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What are 3 characteristics of a hamartoma?
1. Oval
2. Mobile
3. Compressible
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What age range do hamartomas typically deveople?
40-50
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What are hamartomas composed of? (4)
1. Fibrous tissue
2. Fatty tissue
3. Normal mammary tissue
4. Dysplastic mammary tissue
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How do hamartomas appears on US?
1. Mixed echotexture
2. Hyperechoic tissue surrounding hypoechoic areas
- because of the fat and fluid that make up the mass
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