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C Digabel-Chabay

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[Architectural distortion and diagnostic difficulties].

Identification of architectural distortion requires a good practice of mammography. Prevalence is estimated at 6% of detected abnormalities in screening programs. Under this denomination are gathered focal architectural distortion with predictive positive value (PPV) of 10% and stellate images without central densification, which are more suspicious (PPV 50%). In order to establish a diagnosis, false images must be eliminated by other views. Minimal architectural distortion have to be investigated by other techniques (sonography, MRI percutaneous biopsy) in order to define the best strategy for further management. Stellate images suggestive of radial scars must be surgically removed. The relationships between radial scars and tubular carcinoma are discussed. A particular attention is required for post traumatic or post surgical scars if it exist a high risk of local recurrence or controlateral carcinoma specially after conservative or oncoplastic surgery.

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[Borderline lesions of the breast: clinical and radiological study of 20 cases].

We describe the clinical and mammographic signs observed in 20 patients with atypical hyperplasia of the breast. The clinical signs include abnormalities noted at palpation (tumefaction, masses, clusters of nodules) and nipple discharge. The mammographic signs include rounded, clearly delineated opacities with benign appearances, or spiculated masses possibly associated with microcalcifications, stellate opacities, and isolated foci of microcalcifications. Galactography may visualize milk ducts dilatation. Both the clinical and mammographic signs are non-specific and even equivocal and do not allow pre-operative diagnosis of non-specific lesions.

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[An unusual clinical form of intraductal breast carcinoma: an inflammatory syndrome. Apropos of 5 cases].

The authors report 5 cases of in situ intraductal breast carcinoma (IDC) revealed or complicated by a clinical inflammatory syndrome. These cases showed some common features with other IDCs, such as mammographic signs and histologic forms of epitheliamatous proliferation, but were also characterized by clinical inflammatory signs different from those of rapidly developing "inflammatory" cancer, frequent nipple discharge, frequent positive results in bacteriologic examinations of nipple discharge and the role of cytologic studies of discharge in determining a definite diagnosis of carcinoma. Some hypotheses as to etiology are also discussed.

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[Granulomatous lesions of the breast. Their role in inflammatory breast pathology and their relations to lobular granulomatous mastitis].

The authors summarise the clinical notes and histological findings of 17 patients who had inflammatory changes in their breasts and in whom biopsies showed epithelioid granulation tissues with giant cells. Three separate histological tables have been prepared as well as a review of the literature. The paper shows that mixed granulomatous conditions exist, with the sites of the changes being both in the canals and in the lobules. This gives rise to a discussion about the separateness of the condition, which is presumed to be of an autoimmune origin. It is pointed out that there can be an infectious element present.

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