A Rare Mammary Serendipity: Mucinous Metaplasia of the Breast.

(2018) International Journal of Surgical Pathology — Vol. 26, n° 8, p. 730 (2018)

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The term serendipity has been used to describe the phenomenon wherein researchers discover unexpected findings merely by chance or even “by accident,” consequently exposing a solution for a problem while they were initially trying to solve another.1 A more wide and vague description of serendipity includes the definition of “a simple, happy accident.”1 Analogically, pathologists can encounter unexpected benign and innocent anomalies while they are on the lookout for malignancy. [...]
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Van Bockstal, M. (2018). A Rare Mammary Serendipity: Mucinous Metaplasia of the Breast. International Journal of Surgical Pathology, 26(8), 730. https://doi.org/10.1177/1066896918761809 (Original work published 2018)