breast

66-year-old female with a large fungating breast mass with ulceration and bleeding.

Procedure: biopsy of fungating breast mass.

Micro: see photos. 4x to 40x.

Middle-aged woman with a 1 cm. breast mass.

Procedure: Ultrasound guided needle core biopsy of breast mass.

Gross: Received are three cores of pink fatty tissue measuring 1.3 to 1.5 cm.

50-year-old female with left breast mass.

Procedure: excisional biopsy.

Micro: Sections show benign breast parenchyma with dilated large ducts, fibrous thickening of the wall, and patchy promine

Right soft to firm breast mass measured clinically 6 cm in greatest dimension. Fine needle aspiration is done from the mass for smear cytology.

50-year-old female with a right breast lump.

Procedure: U/S guided needle core biopsy.

Micro: Smears of core biopsy tissue with Pap stain.

Sections show distended terminal ducts and acini with proliferation of medium/large dyscohesive cells exhibiting eosinophilic, granular and occasionally vacuolated cytoplasm.

43-year-old female with right breast cancer.

Procedure: Needle localized excisional biopsy

Gross: The specimen consists of a resected pink-tan, irregular breast tissue measuring 10 x 8 x 3 cm.

36-year-old women with left axillary ectopic breast.

Gross: The specimen consists of 2 yellow, fatty, irregular tissue fragments measuring 2.6 and 4.5 cm.