CASE 7
FNAC: Poorly to moderately cellular smears with large, solid, cohesive sheets of epithelial cells with a low degree of overlapping. Clean, hemorragic background. At higher magnification, some cellular clusters have a normal benign aspect but others are composed of cells with irregular pleomorphic nuclei. Presence of some drying artefacts. The FNAC was reported in category C4.
Triple assessment:
- Clinic: palpation suspicious.
- Mammography: suspicious.
- Ultrasound: suspicious.
- FNAC : representative, borderline adequate, presence of cells suspicious for malignancy, category C4.
Ccl: In the absence of definite diagnosis, a breast biopsy and per-operative frozen section analysis were planed.
Surgery and histology report: Presence of palpable mass vanishing after gross serial section. The denser area is sampled for frozen section diagnosis. A diagnosis of sclerosing adenosis with abnormal epithelial proliferation (LCIS?) is suggested. Definitive sections confirms this diagnosis.
Further treatment: Follow-up alone.
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