inflammatory breast carcinoma
Findings
No curated finding names inflammatory breast carcinoma yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
An advanced, invasive breast adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of distinct changes in the overlying skin. These changes include diffuse erythema, edema, peau d'orange (skin of an orange) appearance, tenderness, induration, warmth, enlargement, and in some cases a palpable mass. The skin changes are the consequence of lymphatic obstruction from the underlying invasive breast adenocarcinoma. Microscopically, the dermal lymphatics show prominent infiltration by malignant cells. The invasive breast adenocarcinoma is usually of ductal, NOS type. There is not significant inflammatory cell infiltrate present, despite the name of this carcinoma.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0006804), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
Other names
4 names
Resolves to: inflammatory breast carcinoma
- Also called
- inflammatory breast cancerinflammatory carcinoma of breastinflammatory carcinoma of the breastmastitis Carcinomatosa