TY - JOUR
T1 - Apocrine carcinoma
T2 - Clinical and mammographic features
AU - Gilles, René
AU - Lesnik, Alvian
AU - Guinebretière, Jean Marc
AU - Tardivon, Anne
AU - Masselot, Jacques
AU - Contesso, Geneviève
AU - Vanel, Daniel
PY - 1994/2
Y1 - 1994/2
N2 - PURPOSE: To describe the mammographic features of apocrine carcinoma and assess the patterns of calcifications associated with these lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Clinical and mammographic features from 17 patients with apocrine carcinoma were retrospectively reviewed. Special attention was paid to the presence of mixed form, diffusely scattered microcalcifications on mammograms. RESULTS: Patients were referred for clinical (n = 10), mammographic (n = 2), or both clinical and mammographic (n = 5) abnormalities. Findings at clinical examination included a palpable breast mass (n = 12), multiple breast masses (n = 1), and bloody nipple discharge (n = 2); two patients had normal findings. Fourteen patients had opacities at mammography. These opacities were associated with microcalcifications in 10 cases. Three patients had microcalcifications without opacifies; one of those three patients exhibited a mixed form of diffusely scattered calcifications. CONCLUSION: Clinical and mammographic features of apocrine carcinoma do not differ from those of invasive ductal carcinoma.
AB - PURPOSE: To describe the mammographic features of apocrine carcinoma and assess the patterns of calcifications associated with these lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Clinical and mammographic features from 17 patients with apocrine carcinoma were retrospectively reviewed. Special attention was paid to the presence of mixed form, diffusely scattered microcalcifications on mammograms. RESULTS: Patients were referred for clinical (n = 10), mammographic (n = 2), or both clinical and mammographic (n = 5) abnormalities. Findings at clinical examination included a palpable breast mass (n = 12), multiple breast masses (n = 1), and bloody nipple discharge (n = 2); two patients had normal findings. Fourteen patients had opacities at mammography. These opacities were associated with microcalcifications in 10 cases. Three patients had microcalcifications without opacifies; one of those three patients exhibited a mixed form of diffusely scattered calcifications. CONCLUSION: Clinical and mammographic features of apocrine carcinoma do not differ from those of invasive ductal carcinoma.
KW - Breast neoplasms
KW - Breast neoplasms, diagnosis
KW - Breast, calcification
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M3 - Article
C2 - 8284405
AN - SCOPUS:0028158206
VL - 190
SP - 495
EP - 497
JO - Radiology
JF - Radiology
SN - 0033-8419
IS - 2
ER -