PHYSIOLOGICAL, BIOCHEMICAL, AND CYTOLOGIC ASPECTS OF NIPPLE ASPIRATE FLUID
PHYSIOLOGICAL, BIOCHEMICAL, AND CYTOLOGIC ASPECTS OF NIPPLE ASPIRATE FLUID
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01805919
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发表时间:
1986-01-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
PETRAKIS, NL
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作者:
PETRAKIS, NL
In 1923, Geoffry Keynes wrote,'the breast is a gland which throughout life is exhibiting some secretory activity, the difference between a lactating and a nonlactating breast being one partly of degree and partly of the chemical constitution of the secretion'(1). He emphasized that the physiology of the breast entails not merely a secretory, but by physiologic necessity, a continuous absorptive activity. Except during lactation, the mouths of the nipple ducts are normally not open but tightly occluded by keratin plugs, and secretion can rarely escape.Since the 1920s, pathologists have intensively studied the histopathology of the female breast in health and disease. The description of the progression from normal epithelium through hyperplasia, atypical hyperplasia, carcinoma in situ to cancer is now well understood and detailed in several publications (2-6). Epithelial atypical hyperplasia has been identified as a specific high-risk precursor lesion in breast cancer. The intraluminal cells and secretions in the alveolar-ductal system, although evident in histologic sections of breast tissue, have received little attention. Most pathologists considered these cells and secretions to be