THE JUVENILE PAPILLOMATOSIS OF THE BREAST

Abstract

The PJ, introduced by Rosen in the 1980, is a benign and localized mammary lesion in female under 30 years old. The most important clinical and histological features are:

• Diagnosis in juvenile ag

• A mass clinically localized

• A nodule with histologic features of cyst, benigne hyperplasia of ductal epithelium and galactophorus ducts dilatation (Swiss cheese disease).

There is a correlation between patients with PJ and breast cancer there is an increment of breast cancer in familiares of patients with PJ.

There is an increment of the risk to develop a K in situ in patients with PJ and apocrine metaplasia and/or adenomatosis and/or atypical mastoplasia. We describe the diffuse PJ in a girl of 23 years old from the 1996 to 2002.