Introduction Breast enlargement in children and adolescents (<20 years of age) can be due to normal or abnormal physiological causes, reactive changes, or neoplastic proliferations. The patient’s age, gender, hormonal status, and other clinical findings need to be considered in…
This chapter discusses the more common benign and malignant mesenchymal tumors that occur in the breast. Most of these lesions are uncommonly encountered in routine practice and offer specific challenges to the pathologist. Spindle cell proliferations in particular can have…
An uncommon variant of intraductal papilloma that involves the nipple, florid papillomatosis was first described as a clinicopathological entity in 1955 by Jones. Alternative terms used for this entity include nipple adenoma , erosive adenomatosis , superficial papillary adenomatosis ,…