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Alexander T Damron1, Katrina Korhonen1, Samantha Zuckerman1
11 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Abstract:
Microglandular adenosis (MGA) of the breast is exceedingly rare, with only a few case reports and series published to date. Previous studies have elegantly demonstrated the progression of benign MGA to atypical MGA to MGA-in situ carcinoma to invasive carcinoma and therefore suggest MGA as a possible non-obligate precursor lesion to a subset of breast carcinomas. Immunohistochemically, MGA is negative for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and HER2-neu oncoprotein expression, and carcinomas arising in the setting of MGA are often reported to be triple negative. In this article, we present a unique case of an ER+/PR+/HER2- invasive carcinoma associated with MGA and atypical MGA. Our case highlights the diagnostic pitfall of MGA and suggests that MGA is a heterogeneous group of lesions with potential for either luminal-type or basal-type differentiation during progression to breast carcinoma.
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