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Cribriform <strong>Carcinoma</strong><br />

Pearls <strong>of</strong> Pathology<br />

• <strong>Breast</strong>, left, needle core biopsy<br />

– <strong>Invasive</strong> cribriform carcinoma (nuclear grade I),<br />

see comment.<br />

– Synoptic Report<br />

• <strong>Invasive</strong> tumor type: invasive cribriform<br />

• <strong>Invasive</strong> tumor size: 0.7 cm<br />

• <strong>Invasive</strong> tumor grade (modified Bloom-Richardson): 1<br />

• Nuclear grade: 1<br />

• Mitotic grade & mf count: 1<br />

• Tubule/papilla formation: 1<br />

• Total mBR score: 3<br />

• Lymphatic-vascular invasion: not seen<br />

• Duct carcinoma in situ type: solid<br />

• Duct carcinoma in situ size: minimal (0.1 cm)<br />

• Duct carcinoma in situ grade: Iow-grade<br />

• -Her2/neu status: negative<br />

• -Hormone receptor status (ER/PR): positive 3+, 100%<br />

Case 4<br />

• 57 year old woman with palpable breast<br />

mass<br />

• Patient was participating in some breast<br />

cancer awareness month function when she<br />

examined her own breasts and noticed the<br />

left breast mass.<br />

• Mammogram found 2 cm suspicious mass at<br />

5 o'clock position <strong>of</strong> the left breast<br />

Case 4<br />

10/8/2011<br />

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