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mammary Paget disease
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Paget disease of the breast
Digital case
JRC:5395 : Mammary Paget disease. JRC:5397 : Mammary Paget disease. JRC:5398 : Mammary Paget disease. JRC:5399 : Mammary Paget disease. JRC:5400 : Mammary Paget disease.
Definition: Mammary Paget disease (MPD) is considered an intraepidermal manifestation of an underlying mammary carcinoma.
In contrast to extramammary Paget disease, invasion of mammary Paget cells into the dermis (invMPD) has very rarely been reported (22895267).
See also
mammary tumors
References
Invasive paget disease of the breast: clinicopathologic study of an underrecognized entity in the breast. Duan X, Sneige N, Gullett AE, Prieto VG, Resetkova E, Andino LM, Wu Y, Gilcrease MZ, Bedrosian I, Dawood S, Arun B, Albarracin CT. Am J Surg Pathol. 2012 Sep;36(9):1353-8. PMID: 22895267