<aside> 🤱🏻 SMLE Breast Path ★

• Breast abscess = Erythema, swelling (pus), pain, LN involvement, more localized

  • If skin thinning = incision & drainage
  • No skin thinning = repeated aspiration

• Mastitis = Erythema, pain, swelling, more diffuse

• Breast cancer = Constitutional symptoms, elderly, not related to breastfeeding, usually + FHX

• Duct ectasia = Areolar mass, nipple inversion, green discharge </aside>

• Pathoma Notes: Breast

• Normal Breast Anatomy & Histology

• Accessory Breast Tissue

• Gynecomastia

• Approach to Nonlactational Nipple Discharge

• Galactorrhea

• Mastitis

• Breast Abscess

• Antibioma

Benign Breast Conditions

• Fibroadenoma
• Lipoma
• Intraductal Papilloma
• Mammary duct ectasia
• Sclerosing Adenosis
• Fat Necrosis

Malignant Breast Lesions

• BRCA Mutations