Surgical management of diseases of the adolescent female breast: a clinicopathologic study.
Sixty-three patients, ages 10 to 20 years with diseases of the breast were operated on during a 10 year period. A variety of pathologic entities were found. The most common were diagnoses fibroadenoma, cystic disease, and cellulitis with abscess formation. Malignancy was found in three patients: lobular carcinoma in situ in one, angiosarcoma in the second, and lymphosarcoma in the third.
D000038:Abscess / Q000601:surgery; D000232:Adenofibroma / Q000601:surgery; D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000601:surgery; D002481:Cellulitis / Q000601:surgery; D003560:Cysts / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000601:surgery; D011627:Puberty