Sebaceous Carcinoma of the Breast: Fact or Fiction? A Case Report and a Review of the Literature.

Autor: De Vincentiis L; Macerata General Hospital, Macerata, Italy., Mariani MP; Macerata General Hospital, Macerata, Italy., Cesinaro AM; University Hospital Modena, Modena, Italy., Dalena AM; University Hospital Modena, Modena, Italy., Ferrara G; Macerata General Hospital, Macerata, Italy.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of surgical pathology [Int J Surg Pathol] 2021 Apr; Vol. 29 (2), pp. 211-215. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jul 01.
DOI: 10.1177/1066896920937784
Abstrakt: Introduction. Previously considered an exceedingly rare entity, sebaceous carcinoma of the breast is now regarded in the World Health Organization 2019 classification as a "special histopathological pattern" of invasive breast carcinoma of no special type. Case Description . In this article, we report the case of a fine needle aspiration cytology and the histopathological features of a breast carcinoma with clear-cut morphological features suggesting sebaceous differentiation, but showing no positive staining with the anti-adipophilin antibody. Conclusions. A morphologically clear-cut sebaceous differentiation is not invariably associated with adipophilin positivity; moreover, in breast carcinoma, adipophilin positivity does not automatically imply sebaceous differentiation. At present, immunomorphological evidence for the recognition of sebaceous carcinoma as a "special type" breast carcinoma subtype is too weak.
Databáze: MEDLINE