Abstract
Duct endoscopy is a recent technique used for a direct view of the breast ductal system. The aim of this study is to determine any morphological changes in breast tissue attributable to low-pressure irrigation with saline solution that the technique requires. A total of 26 breast biopsies from patients who underwent ductal endoscopy before surgery were compared with 26 breast specimens from the retroareolar region. Breast specimens from duct endoscopy showed more frequent epithelial detachment (73%), epithelial loss (35%), periductal clefts (77%), stromal disaggregation (46%) and displacement of epithelial cells into the stroma (27%) than the control group in which epithelial detachment was seen in 4% of patients, periductal clefts in 15%, and stromal disaggregation in 15%. Epithelial loss and epithelial displacement where not seen in the control group. Although low-pressure fluid perfusion used for duct endoscopy induced morphological changes in breast tissue, these can easily be distinguished from malignancy, and are most likely to occur as the result of duct rupture.
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