KROK 1 2011 – Question 106 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Medical examination of a 20-year-old woman revealed a dense incapsulated node 1 cm in diameter that was palpated in the mammary gland. The postoperative biopsy revealed connective tissue overgrowth around the mammary ducts and glandular components of different diameter that didn’t make lobules and bore no signs of cellular abnormality. What diagnosis will be made?
- A. Metastatic cancer
- B. Fibroma
- C. Adenoma
- D. Fibrocarcinoma
- E. Fibroadenoma
Hint
Decide from the lack of atypia whether the lesion is benign, then ask how many tissue components, epithelial and stromal, are growing in this tumour.
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