Benign mimickers of malignant breast lesions

Breast Pathology is filled with pitfalls, including under diagnosis of bland appearing lesions, both invasive and non-invasive, misdiagnosis of malignant lesions as belonging to the wrong subgroup, for example calling LCIS as DCIS or missing the metaplastic component of an invasive lesion, and over-diagnosis of benign lesions as malignancy. While each is a sin of varying severity, the over-diagnosis of benign lesions can be the most scarring, especially in this age where Angelina Jolie's prophylactic mastectomy is headline news and patients are pushing for aggressive preventative treatment.
Source: Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology - Category: Pathology Authors: Source Type: research