Granular cell tumour of the pectoral muscle mimicking breast cancer

We describe the case of a 55 year old female who presented with a mass in her right breast. Mammography confirmed a 2 × 2 cm lump, suspicious of malignancy. The lesion was widely resected. Histological examination revealed this to be a benign granular cell tumour. Granular cell tumour is a rare tumo...

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Autores principales: Patel, Anish, Lefemine, Valentina, Yousuf, Syed Mansoor, Abou-Samra, Walid
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2538504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18775077
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-142
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author Patel, Anish
Lefemine, Valentina
Yousuf, Syed Mansoor
Abou-Samra, Walid
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Lefemine, Valentina
Yousuf, Syed Mansoor
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description We describe the case of a 55 year old female who presented with a mass in her right breast. Mammography confirmed a 2 × 2 cm lump, suspicious of malignancy. The lesion was widely resected. Histological examination revealed this to be a benign granular cell tumour. Granular cell tumour is a rare tumour that very occasionally presents within the breast. It is possibly of Schwann cell origin. Clinical features and subsequent investigations may be suggestive of breast malignancy. Tumour cells showing positive immunostaining for S-100 and PAS is in keeping with the diagnosis. Wide local resection is the gold standard treatment.
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spelling pubmed-25385042008-09-17 Granular cell tumour of the pectoral muscle mimicking breast cancer Patel, Anish Lefemine, Valentina Yousuf, Syed Mansoor Abou-Samra, Walid Cases J Case Report We describe the case of a 55 year old female who presented with a mass in her right breast. Mammography confirmed a 2 × 2 cm lump, suspicious of malignancy. The lesion was widely resected. Histological examination revealed this to be a benign granular cell tumour. Granular cell tumour is a rare tumour that very occasionally presents within the breast. It is possibly of Schwann cell origin. Clinical features and subsequent investigations may be suggestive of breast malignancy. Tumour cells showing positive immunostaining for S-100 and PAS is in keeping with the diagnosis. Wide local resection is the gold standard treatment. BioMed Central 2008-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2538504/ /pubmed/18775077 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-142 Text en Copyright © 2008 Patel 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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Patel, Anish
Lefemine, Valentina
Yousuf, Syed Mansoor
Abou-Samra, Walid
Granular cell tumour of the pectoral muscle mimicking breast cancer
title Granular cell tumour of the pectoral muscle mimicking breast cancer
title_full Granular cell tumour of the pectoral muscle mimicking breast cancer
title_fullStr Granular cell tumour of the pectoral muscle mimicking breast cancer
title_full_unstemmed Granular cell tumour of the pectoral muscle mimicking breast cancer
title_short Granular cell tumour of the pectoral muscle mimicking breast cancer
title_sort granular cell tumour of the pectoral muscle mimicking breast cancer
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2538504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18775077
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-142
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