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Diabetic mastopathy: a distinctive clinicopathologic entity.

J E Tomaszewski1, J S Brooks, D Hicks

  • 1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Surgical Pathology Section, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia.

Human Pathology
|July 1, 1992
PubMed
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Diabetic mastopathy, a rare breast condition in insulin-dependent diabetics, presents unique pathological features including specific inflammatory cells and fibrosis. These findings help distinguish it from other chronic breast conditions.

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Area of Science:

  • Endocrinology
  • Pathology
  • Oncology

Background:

  • Insulin-dependent diabetes is linked to autoimmune conditions.
  • Diabetic patients can develop rare fibrous breast lesions.
  • Distinct pathological features of these lesions remain undefined.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To define and distinguish pathological and clinical features of diabetic breast lesions.
  • To compare lesions in longstanding diabetic patients with controls.

Main Methods:

  • Studied eight patients with breast masses and longstanding insulin-dependent diabetes.
  • Compared these cases with 36 non-diabetic or short-duration diabetic patients with fibrosis and chronic mastitis.
  • Analyzed clinical presentation and pathological findings, including lymphocytic lobulitis, ductitis, vasculitis, fibrosis, and epithelioid fibroblasts (EFBs).

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Main Results:

  • Longstanding diabetic patients presented with breast masses (2-6 cm).
  • Six of eight diabetic patients had other diabetic complications (nephropathy, retinopathy, neuropathy).
  • Pathology revealed lymphocytic lobulitis/ductitis, B-cell vasculitis, keloid-like fibrosis, and unique epithelioid fibroblasts (EFBs) in six patients. EFBs were not found in control cases.

Conclusions:

  • Diabetic mastopathy exhibits a unique constellation of pathological findings, including EFBs.
  • These features differentiate it from chronic mastitis in non-diabetic or short-duration diabetic patients.
  • Diabetic mastopathy may result from an immune response to altered matrix accumulation.