Amyloid in the breast : retrospective review with clinicopathological and radiological correlation of 32 cases from a single institution
© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd..
AIMS: Mammary amyloid is an uncommon and easily overlooked pathological diagnosis with ambivalent presentation. Herein, we delineate the clinicopathological and radiographic characteristics of mammary amyloid.
METHODS AND RESULTS: The Department of Pathology database was searched from 1993 to 2019 for keywords 'breast' and 'amyloid', yielding 32 cases from 23 patients, including consultation cases. All patients were female, age range = 52-81 (mean = 67.4 years). The left breast was involved more than the right (43 versus 33%, respectively); bilateral amyloid involvement was also present (24%). Amyloid was most often associated with a benign histopathological diagnosis (57%), lymphoma in 39% [all B cell lymphomas; five of nine were mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma] and rarely with a concurrent epithelial malignancy (invasive lobular carcinoma, 4%). Of the 14 patients with available clinical history, amyloid presented as a mass clinically or radiographically (six patients, 43%), as microcalcifications (five patients, 36%), and only occasionally as an asymmetry (14%) or fibroglandular density (7%). Microscopic examination detected microcalcifications in an additional nine cases (total 14 patients; 44% of the cohort). Interestingly, one patient had concurrent epithelial and haematological malignancy and amyloid within an axillary lymph node. Co-morbidities included autoimmune diseases and multiple myeloma.
CONCLUSION: The majority of mammary amyloid cases are associated with benign histopathological findings, while imaging most frequently noted microcalcifications or mass lesions. To avoid overlooking amyloid as simply fat necrosis or fibroelastotic stromal change, a low threshold for performing ancillary stains should be considered in elderly women with benign core needle findings performed for mass lesions or microcalcifications.
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2021 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:79 |
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Histopathology - 79(2021), 1 vom: 17. Juli, Seite 57-66 |
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Duckworth, Lauren A [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 06.12.2021 Date Revised 14.12.2021 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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| 520 | |a AIMS: Mammary amyloid is an uncommon and easily overlooked pathological diagnosis with ambivalent presentation. Herein, we delineate the clinicopathological and radiographic characteristics of mammary amyloid | ||
| 520 | |a METHODS AND RESULTS: The Department of Pathology database was searched from 1993 to 2019 for keywords 'breast' and 'amyloid', yielding 32 cases from 23 patients, including consultation cases. All patients were female, age range = 52-81 (mean = 67.4 years). The left breast was involved more than the right (43 versus 33%, respectively); bilateral amyloid involvement was also present (24%). Amyloid was most often associated with a benign histopathological diagnosis (57%), lymphoma in 39% [all B cell lymphomas; five of nine were mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma] and rarely with a concurrent epithelial malignancy (invasive lobular carcinoma, 4%). Of the 14 patients with available clinical history, amyloid presented as a mass clinically or radiographically (six patients, 43%), as microcalcifications (five patients, 36%), and only occasionally as an asymmetry (14%) or fibroglandular density (7%). Microscopic examination detected microcalcifications in an additional nine cases (total 14 patients; 44% of the cohort). Interestingly, one patient had concurrent epithelial and haematological malignancy and amyloid within an axillary lymph node. Co-morbidities included autoimmune diseases and multiple myeloma | ||
| 520 | |a CONCLUSION: The majority of mammary amyloid cases are associated with benign histopathological findings, while imaging most frequently noted microcalcifications or mass lesions. To avoid overlooking amyloid as simply fat necrosis or fibroelastotic stromal change, a low threshold for performing ancillary stains should be considered in elderly women with benign core needle findings performed for mass lesions or microcalcifications | ||
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