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| This lesion is a fibroadenoma. The age of the patient is the giveaway as is the clinical description of the lump as being freely mobile and firm. What are the two tissues? Fibrous tissue and glandular tissue What is the process? It's a neoplastic process. Is it prelmalignant? No Note that fibrocystic disease of the breast may be premalignant sometimes. The picture here shows the fibrous tissue apparently intruding into the glands and stretching them out, this is called the "intracanalicular pattern" to distinguish it from the "pericanalicular pattern" in which the glands are surrounded by fibrous tissue but retain their circular shape to a greater or lesser extent. This point is really irrelevant. Which of the two elements in this tumor has undergone neoplastic transformation? Email me the answer to this question!! |
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