title: Intraductal location of the sclerosing adenosis of the breast.
abstract: Sclerosing adenosis is a benign breast disease with non-specific images on ultrasound or mammogram. It can mimic infiltrating carcinoma when the above mentioned imaging techniques are used. Herein we present a patient with breast cancer who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy and subsequently underwent mastectomy. Ductoscopy was performed to the mastectomised breast specimen as per the ductoscopy research protocol. Ductoscopy revealed several nodular lesions in the duct with no additional demonstrable intraductal pathology. The lesions were reported as sclerosing adenosis by pathologist. As to our knowledge, this is the first case in literature that demonstrates the use of ductoscopy in diagnosing the sclerosing adenosis in the breast tissue. Ductoscopy and development of ductoscopy guided biopsy techniques may be used as an early diagnostic method for the ductal breast lesions (Fig. 2, Ref. 10). Full Text (Free, PDF) www.bmj.sk.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Oncology, Magee-Womens Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. unalb@upmc.edu
authors.forename: Bulent
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Unal
authors.forename: A Serhat
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Gur
authors.forename: Rohit
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bhargava
authors.forename: Howard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Edington
authors.forename: Gretchen
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ahrendt
authors.forename: Atilla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Soran
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005348:Fibrocystic Breast Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D012598:Sclerosis