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Dermatopathology: Practical & Conceptual July - September 2003
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The breast is not an organ per se, but a distinctive region of skin and subcutaneous tissue: Part III, Pathology
A. Bernard Ackerman, M.D.
Hui C. Tsou, M.D.
Geoffrey J. Gottlieb, M.D.
Abstract:The breast is not an organ per se, but a distinctive region of skin and subcutaneous tissue
Pathologic Processes
“The breast” vis-a vis “the skin” in the “Contents” of textbooks devoted to anatomy, histology, and general pathology, and to those given to the breast exclusively
Textbooks devoted solely to breast pathology
Attributes that distinguish the breast from the rest of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
Definition of an organ as a basis for deciding whether or not the breast qualifies
SEE ALSO
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Textbooks devoted solely to breast pathology
None of the following authors states whether or not the breast is an organ:
1. Page DL, Anderson TJ.
Diagnostic Histopathology of the Breast.
New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1987.
2. Mitchell GW. Bassett LW.
The Female Breast and Its Disorders.
New York: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 1990.
3. Rosen PP, Oberman HA.
AFIP's Atlas of Tumor Pathology: Tumors of the Mammary Gland.
Washington DC: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1993.
4. Tavassoli F,
Pathology of the Breast,
2
nd
ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 1999.
5. Rosen PP.
Rosen's Breast Pathology,
2
nd
ed. New York: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2001.
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