—  SPECIALTY CONFERENCE  —

Breast Pathology
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 7:30 PM
Convention Centre 301-305





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Mimics in Breast Pathology
Moderator: LAURA C. COLLINS
Beth Israel Deaconess MC
Boston, MA
Disclosure: In accordance with ACCME guidelines regarding disclosure, the USCAP policy requires that faculty members who have a significant financial or other relationship with a commercial company, entity, or service (which will be discussed in this Symposium) must disclose this to attendees. The Academy also requires that speakers disclose any products that are not labeled for the use under discussion. The speakers listed below have indicated they have nothing to disclose.
Panelists: Melinda F. Lerwill, Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA
Juan P. Palazzo, Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Kimberly H. Allison, Univ of WA Med Ctr, Seattle, WA
Fouad Boulos, American Univ/Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Jean F. Simpson, Vanderbilt Univ Med Ctr, Nashville, TN



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Case 1

Submitted by: Melinda F. Lerwill - Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA

Clinical Summary:

83-year-old woman with a 4.5 x 3 cm hard, palpable mass in the upper outer quadrant of the right breast.


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Submitted by: Juan P. Palazzo - Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Clinical Summary:

A seventy five year old female was diagnosed in a screening mammography with a focal asymmetry in the upper outer left breast. By ultrasound, there was an ovoid, hypoechoic mass with indistinct margins and no calcifications. Twenty years ago the patient had an invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast and six years ago she had an invasive ductal carcinoma of the right breast. A wide local excision was performed.


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Case 3

Submitted by: Kimberly H. Allison - Univ of WA Med Ctr, Seattle, WA

Clinical History:

54 year old post-menopausal female now status post breast core needle biopsy for an area of calcifications found on annual mammogram. She is status post bilateral salpingo- oophorectomy at age 38 for benign cysts and has been on hormone replacement therapy for the last 16 years. She is G3P2 with her first pregnancy at age 23. She has no personal or family history of breast cancer but has a half sister with ovarian cancer.


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Case 4

Submitted by: Fouad Boulos - American Univ/Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Clinical Summary:

67-year-old patient with a 6 cm right breast mass.


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Case 5

Submitted by: Jean F. Simpson - Vanderbilt Univ Med Ctr, Nashville, TN

Clinical Summary:

A 56-year old woman had an excisional breast biopsy after a nodular density was detected on breast imaging.


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