Atypical ductal hyperplasia presenting as pseudomicrocalcifications.
A 53-year-old white female on mammography had "suspicious" microcalcifications. Upon excision, these turned out to be pseudomicrocalcifications created by the intraductal cellular proliferations of atypical ductal hyperplasia so dense as to create radiodensities.
Tsai
Henry C H
HC
Department of Pathology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA.
Chang
Helena
H
Barsky
Sanford H
SH
D001706:Biopsy; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D016217:Ultrasonography, Mammary