Conditions We Treat
UPMC surgeons have particular expertise in the treatment of breast disease, including:
- invasive ductual carcinoma; invasive lobular carcinoma
- ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)
- lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS)
- Paget’s disease of the nipple
- rare forms of breast cancer
- breast cancer associated with pregnancy
Breast disease
- fibrocystic disease
- nipple discharge – especially bloody, dark, clear, and spontaneous
- lumps
- abnormal mammogram
- calcifications that cannot be needle biopsied
- high-risk lesion on needle biopsy or atypical biopsy cells
- discordant pathology/imaging findings after biopsy
- trauma, fat necrosis
- masses
- papilloma
- fibroadenoma (increased size)
- phyllodes
- mastitis/abscess
Lymphedema