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===Resident Questions===
 
===Resident Questions===
 
* <spoiler text="Diagnosis?">
 
* <spoiler text="Diagnosis?">
* Breast carcinoma </spoiler>
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* Cytology diagnosis: Breast carcinoma
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* Surgical diagnosis: Invasive ductal carcinoma </spoiler>
  
 
===Surgical Pathology===
 
===Surgical Pathology===
* Diagnosis
 
** Invasive ductal carcinoma
 
  
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==Cytologic Features==
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* Discohesion
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* Pleomorphism
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* Nuclear irregularity
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* Abnormal chromatin pattern
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* Irregular, large nucleoli
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* Absence of myopeithelial cells
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* Intracytoplasmic lumens

Latest revision as of 20:02, 10 January 2014

Clinical History

81 year old female. Right breast FNA, ThinPrep.

Cytology

Resident Questions


Surgical Pathology

Cytologic Features

  • Discohesion
  • Pleomorphism
  • Nuclear irregularity
  • Abnormal chromatin pattern
  • Irregular, large nucleoli
  • Absence of myopeithelial cells
  • Intracytoplasmic lumens