Breast excision. What is your diagnosis? Would you do stains? #breastpath
Thanks everyone! This is LCIS involving collagenous spherulosis. I did IHC. The e-cad was stronger than I expected but showed granular staining so I followed up with p120 and beta-catenin to illustrate the different stains.
E-cad showing strong membranous staining around ductal cells (left) and decreased granular staining in the lobular neoplasia (right)
We often see LN involving collagenous spherulosis. It is important to recognize it as such and not as DCIS. It can be tricky but looking for the hyaline or amorphous eosinophilic material in the lumina are key. DDX would also include adenoid cystic ca.
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2/ The biomarkers provide predictive information (how a patient may respond to targeted therapy) as well as prognostic information. It helps to organize patients into treatment groups that follow different algorithms and guidelines.
3/ Biomarkers are evaluated in routine clinical mgmt of patients with breast cancer. The 3 routinely tested:
Hormone receptors (HR): Estrogen receptor (ER) and Progesterone receptor (PR)
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Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)
44 yo woman. On req: "faint grouped microcalcs." #breastimagers separate calcs and no calcs cores into separate containers (so helpful!). There was only one block of cores with calcs. Here are the #breastpath images. Thoughts? Next steps?
You are all thinking the way I did! For cases with calcs, I always review the imaging, and in particular the specimen radiograph, to see the morphology of the calcs I should look for. Check out the imaging from @DrJordanaP 👇
The tiny calc in the initial levels of the CNB are not the same as the calcs seen on imaging. We need to find those calcs --> LEVELS! (I haven't heard it called steps before! I like!) #breastradpath correlation is so important here!
Hi #pathology tweeples! I just realized that the callus I have on my pinky is from using it to steady my hand as I dot 😂(with my green pen of course 😉). I must dot A LOT! 💪🔬
I have some #path (mostly) dotting related questions out of curiosity.
We are excited to share the first case in our #breastimaging and #breastpath correlation series! This case highlights challenges of imaging/management and the pathologic diagnosis.
56 yo woman with left breast focal asymmetry and calcifications. Screening mammogram. @DrJordanaP
Diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound were performed. A presumed ultrasound correlate was found with calcs and vascularity. What is the next step? What BI-RADS would give? @DrJordanaP