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Inflammatory Lesions and Inflammatory-Like Lesions

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Several inflammatory or inflammatory-like lesions that involve the breast have an overall spindle cell appearance or may develop focal areas with spindled or histiocytoid morphology. Such lesions can present diagnostic challenges given the broad differential that arises from their often overlapping histologies, especially on the limited sampling of a core needle biopsy. Some of these lesions are specific to the breast, while others are more ubiquitous and are known to involve multiple anatomic sites. As such, remembering that they may occur in the breast is key in their diagnosis and subsequent appropriate management which is especially relevant as the biologic behavior of this group ranges from benign to malignant.

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  1. Cleveland Clinic, Department of Pathology, Robert J. Tomsich Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA

    J. Jordi Rowe & Erinn Downs-Kelly

  2. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    Darya Buehler & Paul Weisman

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Rowe, J.J., Buehler, D., Weisman, P., Downs-Kelly, E. (2021). Inflammatory Lesions and Inflammatory-Like Lesions. In: Rowe, J.J., Downs-Kelly, E. (eds) Mesenchymal Tumors of the Breast and Their Mimics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74474-8_7

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