In addition to a palpable mass, physical exam in patients with breast cancer sometimes reveals one of the characteristic breast skin changes that can accompany this condition. These are:
1. a chronic, non-healing sore
2. inflammed tissue that does not resolve with antibiotics
3. crusty, itchy nipple resembling eczema
4. nipple deviation
5. dimpled skin in one quadrant of the breast
6. unilateral nipple inversion (caused by subareolar carcinoma)
7. peau d’orange (large prominent skin pores)
8. stiffened, leathery skin
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