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BREAST CYTOPATHOLOGY

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12 1. Introduction and Technical Aspects

Fine-needle aspiration of normal breast.

• Usually scant cellularity

• Always cohesive ductal fragments (few to no

lobules)

• Uniform round nuclei, no crowding, and

minimal overlap

• Dense chromatin, small inconspicuous nucleoli

• Accompanying fibroadipose tissue fragments

Fine-needle aspiration cytologic criteria for

breast carcinoma.

• Architectural characteristics (best evaluated at

×25–×40 magnification)

• Cellular morphology (best evaluated at ×100–

×400 magnification)

• General characteristics

High cellularity

Cellular enlargement

High nucleus to cytoplasm ratios

Nuclear hyperchromasia

Macronucleoli (less often observed)

Cellular/nuclear monomorphism (not always

present)

Eccentric nuclear placement

Cellular dishesion with single isolated

epithelial cells

Mitoses/karyorrhexis

Cellular crowding/overlap

Lack of myoepithelial cells

Necrosis

• Specific characteristics

Small cell size with cytoplasmic lumina/

vacuoles (lobular carcinoma)

Pleomorphic naked nuclei with macronucleoli

(medullary carcinoma)

Abundant mucin and capillary tangles

(colloid carcinoma)

Rigid, open-ended tubules (tubular

carcinoma)

Note: See Figure 1.7.

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