Vascular Lesions in the Breast

 

This lecture will cover a broad spectrum of interesting breast pathology including both benign and malignant entities from ten real cases encountered at the University of Utah Department of Pathology and ARUP Laboratories. The focus is loosely on spindled lesions of the breast, infectious lesions of the breast, and other cases with interesting or surprising results resulting from pathologic examination. Topics covered include cystic neutrophilic granulomatous mastitis, pseudo angiomatous stromal hyperplasia, mammary myofibroblastoma, and demodex folliculitis, among others. The goal is a broad overview of lesions that a general pathologist may encounter in day-to-day practice with suggestions about work-up, comments, or clinical significance discussed.

Originally published on November 4, 2024

Lecture Presenter

Ana Lucia Ruano, MD

Ana Lucia Ruano, MD

Assistant Professor (Clinical) of Pathology
University of Utah School of Medicine
Pathologist
ARUP Laboratories

Dr. Ana Lucia Ruano is a pathologist at ARUP Laboratories and an assistant professor (clinical) at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Ruano graduated from the Universidad Francisco Marroquin with her medical degree. She completed an anatomic and clinical pathology residency at the Cleveland Clinic, as well as fellowships in pediatric pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine, hematopathology at the Cleveland Clinic, and surgical pathology at the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Ruano is certified by the American Board of Pathology. She specializes in breast pathology and molecular oncology PDL-1 testing.

Objectives

After this presentation, participants will be able to:

  • Review a case-based selection of spindle cell breast lesions while acknowledging the importance and limitations of IHC in this endeavor
  • Review a case-based selection of clinically relevant infectious findings in breast biopsies
  • Review some interesting and unexpected findings of (mostly) “interesting” cases in breast pathology and correlate these findings with anatomic distribution of breast tissue

Sponsored by:

University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, and ARUP Laboratories