Das Karzinom der sogenannten leeren Brust und seine Beziehungen zur Klassifikation der Parenchymmuster nach Wolfe

Abstract

Carcinoma in the 'empty breast' in our experience is so common that we doubt Wolfe's conclusions in his classification of parenchymal patterns. Amongst patients over 60 years, almost 70% of carcinomas were situated in an 'empty' parenchyma and they did not develop in a parenchymal group above P1. Mammographically, the 'empty breast' is the structureless fatty breast of older women after the menopause. Some authors believe that there is a lower incidence of carcinomas in this type of breast than in other types of parenchyma, such as those showing mastopathies. Our experience concerning carcinomas in involuted breasts is described.