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6th World Congress on
October 16-18, 2017 | San Francisco, USA
Breast Cancer & Therapy
Volume 2, Issue 5 (Suppl) Breast Can Curr Res, an open access journal Breast Cancer Congress 2017
October 16-18, 2017
Pathologic assessment of breast core biopsies: Limitations and Pitfalls
Laura Spruill
Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Improved diagnostic imaging, combined with demand for minimally invasive procedures and ever more bold interventionalists,
often leave the diagnostic pathologist with small core biopsies on which to assign life-altering diagnoses. Breast pathology can be
particularly treacherous because not only is there potential diagnostic overlap between benign and malignant entities, the element of
patient driven care has the added variable of surgical choice in which bilateral mastectomy can be treatment for minimal disease. The
discussion herein will focus on benign breast disease and the diagnostic difficulties that can result in misdiagnosis.
Biography
Spruill completed her MD and PhD degree at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2008 followed by anatomic and clinical pathology residency and two years of
surgical pathology fellowship, one year with a focus on subspecialty gynecologic pathology. She currently practices pathology at the Medical University of South Carolina
with focuses in Breast, Genitourinary and Gynecologic Surgical Pathology.
Laura Spruill, Breast Can Curr Res 2017, 2:5 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2572-4118-C1-011