Case report: Metaplastic carcinoma presenting as a breast abscess

Metaplastic breast carcinoma (MBC) is a rare neoplasm containing a mixture of epithelial and mesenchymal elements. The epithelial component is usually ductal carcinoma but may include other variants of breast carcinomas including squamous carcinoma and osteogenic sarcoma. There is a relative paucity...

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Autores principales: Wong, Corrine, Wright, Chris, Colclough, Angela, Marsh, Simon
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16948857
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-3-23
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author Wong, Corrine
Wright, Chris
Colclough, Angela
Marsh, Simon
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description Metaplastic breast carcinoma (MBC) is a rare neoplasm containing a mixture of epithelial and mesenchymal elements. The epithelial component is usually ductal carcinoma but may include other variants of breast carcinomas including squamous carcinoma and osteogenic sarcoma. There is a relative paucity of data regarding such tumours. Metaplastic carcinoma carries a prognosis not dissimilar to that of comparable ductal carcinoma. This is the case of a 57 year old patient with MBC presenting with a breast abscess. A thorough literature search has not revealed any previous reports of MBC presenting as a breast abscess.
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spelling pubmed-15644042006-09-14 Case report: Metaplastic carcinoma presenting as a breast abscess Wong, Corrine Wright, Chris Colclough, Angela Marsh, Simon Int Semin Surg Oncol Case Report Metaplastic breast carcinoma (MBC) is a rare neoplasm containing a mixture of epithelial and mesenchymal elements. The epithelial component is usually ductal carcinoma but may include other variants of breast carcinomas including squamous carcinoma and osteogenic sarcoma. There is a relative paucity of data regarding such tumours. Metaplastic carcinoma carries a prognosis not dissimilar to that of comparable ductal carcinoma. This is the case of a 57 year old patient with MBC presenting with a breast abscess. A thorough literature search has not revealed any previous reports of MBC presenting as a breast abscess. BioMed Central 2006-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC1564404/ /pubmed/16948857 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-3-23 Text en Copyright © 2006 Wong et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Case report: Metaplastic carcinoma presenting as a breast abscess
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title_full Case report: Metaplastic carcinoma presenting as a breast abscess
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title_short Case report: Metaplastic carcinoma presenting as a breast abscess
title_sort case report: metaplastic carcinoma presenting as a breast abscess
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16948857
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-3-23
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