Carcinoma in situ
Breast carcinoma in situ
Updated: 12/11/2018
© Jun Wang, MD, PhD
General features
- Neoplastic proliferation with malignant features
- Confined within spaces bordered by myoepithelium and basement membrane
- May progress to invasive carcinoma
Clinical presentations
- Clinically occult
- Ductal carcinoma in situ
- Mammographic finding of microcalcifications, soft-tissue densities
- Lobular carcinoma in situ:
- Usually incidental finding due to biopsy for other lesions, such as fibrocystic changes
- Multifocal, bilateral
- NOT associated with microcalcification or stromal density
Key morphological features
- Classified according to architecture and cytological grade
- Ductal carcinoma in situ
Comedo type:
Markedly atypical ductal cells with central necrosis, may habor microinvasion,
may be treated as invasive ductal carcinoma
Paget disease, ductal carcinoma in situ
involving nipple skin
Cribriform:
Round rigid spaces (Roman bridges)
Micropapillary:
finger like projects of tumor cells without fibrovascular core
Papillary:
finger like projects of tumor cells with fibrovascular core
Solid:
Ducts filled with low to intermediated grade tumor cells, or high grade tumor
cells without central necrosis
Loosely cohesive cells
Relatively monotonous
Negative for E-cadherine
Pleomorphic lobular carcinoma in situ:
Lobular carcinoma in situ with moderate to severe cytological atypia
Marker
- Ductal carcinoma in situ: Positive for E-cadherin
- Lobular carcinoma in situ: Negative for E-cadherin
Treatment
- Ductal carcinoma in situ: Surgery
- Pleomorphic lobular carcinoma in situ: Surgery
- Lobular carcinoma in situ: Observation
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