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Periductal foam cells in benign mammary dysplasia
Author(s) -
Davies J. Douglas
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
the journal of pathology
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.964
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1096-9896
pISSN - 0022-3417
DOI - 10.1002/path.1711170106
Subject(s) - citation , medical school , library science , path (computing) , dysplasia , medicine , computer science , pathology , medical education , programming language
The morphology and associations of periductal foam cells were studied in an unselected consecutive series of 576 lesions of benign mammary dysplasia. Periductal foam cells were found to all ages in 10-1 per cent. of the lesions. Their copious foamy cytoplasm, associations with giant cells and infiltrates of periductal small round cells, ochrocytes and colostrum cells suggest that they are macrophages. Mammary epithelium was often damaged at the site of periductal foam-cell infiltration.