Invasive mucinous carcinoma of the breast
| Autor: | William DeLeon, Kelli Y. Ha, Patricia DeLeon |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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0301 basic medicine
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Invasive carcinoma medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Cancer Magnetic resonance imaging General Medicine Lymph node metastasis medicine.disease Micropapillary pattern Case Studies: Radiology Report 03 medical and health sciences Mucinous Neoplasm 030104 developmental biology 0302 clinical medicine 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis medicine Mammography Mucinous carcinoma business skin and connective tissue diseases |
| Popis: | Mucinous carcinoma of the breast is one of the rarer forms of intramammary cancer, often presenting as a lobulated, fairly well circumscribed mass on mammography, sonography, and gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging. It accounts for 1% to 7% of all breast cancers and generally carries a better prognosis than other types of malignant breast cancers. Metastatic disease occurs at a lower frequency than in other types of invasive carcinoma. We present an atypical case of mucinous carcinoma in a woman who presented with a palpable intramammary lymph node metastasis from an unknown breast primary. Subsequent magnetic resonance imaging and percutaneous biopsy demonstrated histologic findings consistent with a mixed mucinous neoplasm with a micropapillary pattern. |
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