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Benign Sclerosing Lesions

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Many different types of both benign and malignant breast lesions can be associated with stromal fibrosis and collagen deposition and can be broadly classified as sclerosing lesions. Recognising the aetiology of the fibrosis on excisional biopsy is usually not very difficult; however, extensive fibrosis and related histologic changes may create major diagnostic challenges on a limited sample such as a core needle biopsy. Sclerosing adenosis and radial scar/complex (radial) sclerosing lesion are two benign entities that will be described in this chapter. The main clinical significance of these lesions is that they may mimic invasive carcinoma clinically and radiographically as well as in gross and microscopic evaluations.

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  1. Division of Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

    Puay Hoon Tan

  2. The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Aysegul A. Sahin

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Tan, P.H., Sahin, A.A. (2017). Benign Sclerosing Lesions. In: Atlas of Differential Diagnosis in Breast Pathology. Atlas of Anatomic Pathology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6697-4_5

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