Important Inflammatory and Reactive Lesions of the Breast

Jennifer S Kaplan; Stuart J Schnitt

doi:10.1016/j.path.2012.06.009

Important Inflammatory and Reactive Lesions of the Breast

Surg Pathol Clin. 2012 Sep;5(3):567-90. doi: 10.1016/j.path.2012.06.009. Epub 2012 Jul 31.

Authors

Jennifer S Kaplan¹, Stuart J Schnitt²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
² Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Electronic address: sschnitt@bidmc.harvard.edu.

PMID: 26838281
DOI: 10.1016/j.path.2012.06.009

Abstract

Some inflammatory and reactive lesions of the breast present problems clinically but are treated without resort to biopsy. In others, biopsy is required to make the correct diagnosis and to distinguish the process from malignancy. Still others represent incidental microscopic findings that may create diagnostic problems. This article reviews a number of inflammatory and reactive conditions that are likely to be encountered in routine surgical pathology practice, as well as those that have been recently described.