Erschienen in:
01.07.2002 | Meeting abstract
The mammographic appearances of benign mammary mucocele-like lesions
verfasst von:
EJ Wylie, C Metcalf
Erschienen in:
Breast Cancer Research
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Sonderheft 1/2002
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Excerpt
Mucocele-like lesions of the breast were first described in the pathology literature in 1986. No series of the mammographic appearances of these lesions has been described. These benign breast lesions are composed of minute multiple cysts lined by uniform flat or cuboidal to columnar epithelium. Microscopically, microcalcifications are frequently present within the cysts and extravasated mucus. These lesions may mimic the microcalcifications of ductal carcinoma in situ at screening mammography. …