title: Aspiration biopsy cytology of secretory carcinoma of the breast.
abstract: Aspirate from a secretory carcinoma of the breast showed malignant epithelial cells present singly or in large sheets with strong cellular cohesiveness. Tumor cells displayed ill-defined, granular, or vacuolated cytoplasm. Intracytoplasmic globular material was periodic acid-Schiff positive and resistant to prior diastase digestion. The cytologic differential diagnosis with other breast cancers is briefly discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, W.C. Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: G K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Neifer
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D002285:Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans