[Cancer of the so-called "empty breast" and its relation to Wolfe's classification of parenchymal patterns].
Carcinoma in the 'empty breast' in our experience is so common that we doubt Wolfe's conclusions in his classification of parenchymal patterns. Amongst patients over 60 years, almost 70% of carcinomas were situated in an 'empty' parenchyma and they did not develop in a parenchymal group above P1. Mammographically, the 'empty breast' is the structureless fatty breast of older women after the menopause. Some authors believe that there is a lower incidence of carcinomas in this type of breast than in other types of parenchyma, such as those showing mastopathies. Our experience concerning carcinomas in involuted breasts is described.
D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging; D001284:Atrophy; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D008593:Menopause; D008875:Middle Aged; D012306:Risk
Das Karzinom der sogenannten leeren Brust und seine Beziehungen zur Klassifikation der Parenchymmuster nach Wolfe.