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BREAST CYTOPATHOLOGY

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Major complications of breast fine-needle aspiration.

• Bleeding/hematoma

• Infection

• Pneumothorax

• Vasovagal reaction

• Epithelial displacement/tumor seeding

• Changes/artifacts occurring after aspiration may interfere with radiographic/

mammographic interpretation

Major diagnostic pitfalls of breast fine-needle aspiration.

• False-negative diagnoses

• False-positive diagnoses

Small focus of carcinoma

Fibroadenoma

in a background of a dominant

Papilloma/papillary lesions

benign lesion (such as extensive

Atypical ductal hyperplasia

fibrocystic changes with apocrine

Pregnancy-associated or

metaplasia)

lactational changes

Carcinoma arising in a complex

Skin adnexal tumors

proliferative lesion (such as

Other lesions (such as fat

carcinoma arising in papilloma) necrosis, collagenous

Well-differentiated carcinomas spherulosis)

(such as in situ carcinomas, both

ductal and lobular)

Specific histologic subtypes

(such as tubular carcinoma,

colloid carcinoma)

Rare tumor types (such as

metaplastic carcinoma, apocrine

carcinoma)

Extensively necrotic or cystic

carcinoma

Sampling errors (in lesions that

are small, deep, or have densely

fibrotic stroma)

Poorly prepared or inadequate

smears

Normal cytologic constituents in breast fine-needle aspiration

samples.

• Epithelium (ductal, lobular, apocrine, squamous)

• Myoepithelium

• Macrophages

• Endothelium

• Adipose, stromal, and other mesenchymal issue

Note: See Figures 1.1 through 1.6.

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