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| Year : 2010 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 71-73 |
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The cytology of micropapillary variant of colloid carcinoma of breast: A report of two cases
Jayashree Krishnamurthy, Divya Kota Nagappa
Department of Pathology, Medical College (VIMS), Bellary - 583 104, Karnataka, India
Correspondence Address:
Jayashree Krishnamurthy
Department of Pathology, Medical College (VIMS), Bellary - 583 104, Karnataka
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0970-9371.70751
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Colloid carcinoma (pure mucinous carcinoma) is an uncommon variant of breast carcinoma with distinctive cytological and histological features. These tumors are characterised by islands of tumor cells floating in a sea of abundant extracellular mucin. We present the cytology of two cases of colloid carcinoma occurring in 80-year-old and 45-year-old females. The fine-needle aspiration cytology helps to subcategorize the tumor type, thereby enhancing the knowledge about the distinctive cytological features of special and uncommon variants of breast carcinoma, their course and prognosis. A distinctive micropapillary variant of pure mucinous carcinoma which is rarely described, is represented in one of the cases. Also we report, here, colloid carcinoma in a female of reproductive age, a relatively uncommon occurrence. |
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