Radiation-induced morphea of the breast: a case report

Radiation-induced morphea (RIM) of the breast is a rare complication of radiotherapy. It is disfiguring, painful and defeats the purpose of achieving a good cosmesis in breast-conservation surgery. This report describes a severe case of RIM in a breast cancer patient together with photographic illus...

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Autores principales: Cheah, Nellie LC, Wong, Daniel WY, Chetiyawardana, Anula D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2390574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18447904
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-136
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author Cheah, Nellie LC
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description Radiation-induced morphea (RIM) of the breast is a rare complication of radiotherapy. It is disfiguring, painful and defeats the purpose of achieving a good cosmesis in breast-conservation surgery. This report describes a severe case of RIM in a breast cancer patient together with photographic illustrations of the serial changes over time and histopathology slides. A review of the literature is provided.
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spelling pubmed-23905742008-05-21 Radiation-induced morphea of the breast: a case report Cheah, Nellie LC Wong, Daniel WY Chetiyawardana, Anula D J Med Case Reports Case Report Radiation-induced morphea (RIM) of the breast is a rare complication of radiotherapy. It is disfiguring, painful and defeats the purpose of achieving a good cosmesis in breast-conservation surgery. This report describes a severe case of RIM in a breast cancer patient together with photographic illustrations of the serial changes over time and histopathology slides. A review of the literature is provided. BioMed Central 2008-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2390574/ /pubmed/18447904 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-136 Text en Copyright © 2008 Cheah 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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Cheah, Nellie LC
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Radiation-induced morphea of the breast: a case report
title Radiation-induced morphea of the breast: a case report
title_full Radiation-induced morphea of the breast: a case report
title_fullStr Radiation-induced morphea of the breast: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Radiation-induced morphea of the breast: a case report
title_short Radiation-induced morphea of the breast: a case report
title_sort radiation-induced morphea of the breast: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2390574/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18447904
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-136
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