Breast carcinoma and malignant melanoma metastasis within a single axillary lymph node

A 58 year old lady presented with a right breast cancer and a prior history of malignant melanoma excised from the right chest wall eight years previously. An abnormal axillary lymph node resected contained features of both metastatic breast carcinoma and malignant melanoma. Following oncologic brea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Carswell, Kirstin A, Behranwala, Kasim A, Nerurkar A, Ashutosh, Gui, Gerald PH
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1601959/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17026760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-3-32
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Sumario:A 58 year old lady presented with a right breast cancer and a prior history of malignant melanoma excised from the right chest wall eight years previously. An abnormal axillary lymph node resected contained features of both metastatic breast carcinoma and malignant melanoma. Following oncologic breast cancer management, the patient is well with no evidence of recurrence at three years.

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