The development of ectopic breast tissue is attributable to the failure of primitive mammary tissue to regress after the development of the mammary ridge, except at pectoral breast sites, and is most often evident in the axillae. Several benign and malignant breast diseases have been reported in ectopic axillary breast tissues. The most common cancerous pathology of ectopic breast tissue is inv...

This case describes an infiltrating breast tumour with thyroid transcription factor-1 (TTF-1) positive staining and ductal differentiation in a 72-year-old woman. The presence of ductal carcinoma in situ with positive TTF-1 is a strong indication that this is a primary tumour and not a metastasis from lung.On PET scan and CT follow up there were no other tumours found in this patient. We are no...

Gastrointestinal metastasis of the breast cancer is rare and its management varies significantly from that of a primary bowel cancer. We report a case of invasive ductal cancer metastasizing to the rectum and masquerading as a rectal primary. A 60 year old caucasian woman presented with fresh rectal bleeding nine years after treatment of her primary breast cancer. The investigations revealed fe...

INTRODUCTION Recently, the incidence of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a noninvasive breast malignancy, has increased. This has resulted in an increase in the incidence of breast-conserving surgery (BCS). Numerous studies have suggested that intraoperative frozen section analysis (IFSA) could reduce the rate of additional excisions required to obtain adequate resection margins. However, DCIS ...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the clinical and immunohistopathological findings of invasive micropapillary carcinoma (IMPC) of the breast. In total, 25 patients were included in the present study, all of whom were diagnosed with IMPC. The mammography and ultrasound scanning (US) findings were analysed retrospectively according to the American College of Radiology Breast Imaging R...

BACKGROUND The histopathological subtype, nuclear grade and presence or absence of comedonecrosis are established as critical elements in the reporting of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) of the breast. The aims of this study were to determine the frequencies of morphological subtypes of DCIS, nuclear grade and comedonecrosis; to compare the age of patients with the histopathological characteris...

The quantitative measurements used to express the rate of occurrence of disease and the magnitude of its accumulation are, respectively, incidence and prevalence. Incidence is the number of cases of a disease being produced by a population over time and is expressed as a rate of production per unit of time per unit of population. Prevalence, on the other hand, is the number of persons in the po...