Carcinoma of the breast at the site of migrated pacemaker generators

Autor:	T. V. Taylor, A. D. M. Bewu, Deepraj S Bhandarkar
Rok vydání:	1993
Předmět:	Aged 80 and over Pacemaker Artificial medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Foreign-Body Migration General surgery Breast Neoplasms General Medicine Breast malignancy medicine.disease Surgery medicine Carcinoma Humans Female business Aged Research Article Implanted pacemaker
Zdroj:	Postgraduate Medical Journal. 69:883-885
ISSN:	1469-0756 0032-5473
Popis:	Summary We report two patients in whom breast malignancy developed in the proximity of 'migrated' pacemaker generators. These cases and the similar ones reported in the literature raise concerns whether this association is merely coincidental or whether the pacemaker generator is responsible for the occurrence in some inexplicable manner. We urge for a routine, careful examination in all patients with implanted pacemaker generators at follow-up visits. This would help in (a) timely detection of migration of the pacemaker generators and (b) earlier diagnosis of any mass developing close to the migrated generators.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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