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Institut für Pathologie - Klinikum Fürth  

Case #22









Clinical data: 56 year old woman with an inguinal mass. Malignancy?

Frozen section diagnosis: Ectopic breast tissue. No malignant tumor.

Pathology and comment: Ectopic breast tissue can develop along the milk line. Also true mammary carcinomas can arise in the ectopic tissue (axilla, vulva). In this case a hamartoma of the ectopic breast tissue was seen on paraffin sections.

 
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