Leiomyosarcoma of the breast in a patient with a 10-year-history of cyclophosphamide exposure: a case report

A 50 year old woman with a 10-year history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and intermittent low-dose cyclophosphamide therapy developed a palpable mass at the periphery of her left breast. Ultrasound guided core biopsy revealed a spindle cell neoplasm characterized on final pathology as a low...

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Autores principales: De la Pena, Jennifer, Wapnir, Irene
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/PMC2590612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18992149
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-301
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description A 50 year old woman with a 10-year history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and intermittent low-dose cyclophosphamide therapy developed a palpable mass at the periphery of her left breast. Ultrasound guided core biopsy revealed a spindle cell neoplasm characterized on final pathology as a low grade leiomyosarcoma.
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spelling pubmed-25906122008-11-29 Leiomyosarcoma of the breast in a patient with a 10-year-history of cyclophosphamide exposure: a case report De la Pena, Jennifer Wapnir, Irene Cases J Case Report A 50 year old woman with a 10-year history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and intermittent low-dose cyclophosphamide therapy developed a palpable mass at the periphery of her left breast. Ultrasound guided core biopsy revealed a spindle cell neoplasm characterized on final pathology as a low grade leiomyosarcoma. BioMed Central 2008-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2590612/ /pubmed/18992149 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-301 Text en Copyright © 2008 De la Pena and Wapnir; 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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Leiomyosarcoma of the breast in a patient with a 10-year-history of cyclophosphamide exposure: a case report
title Leiomyosarcoma of the breast in a patient with a 10-year-history of cyclophosphamide exposure: a case report
title_full Leiomyosarcoma of the breast in a patient with a 10-year-history of cyclophosphamide exposure: a case report
title_fullStr Leiomyosarcoma of the breast in a patient with a 10-year-history of cyclophosphamide exposure: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Leiomyosarcoma of the breast in a patient with a 10-year-history of cyclophosphamide exposure: a case report
title_short Leiomyosarcoma of the breast in a patient with a 10-year-history of cyclophosphamide exposure: a case report
title_sort leiomyosarcoma of the breast in a patient with a 10-year-history of cyclophosphamide exposure: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2590612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18992149
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-301
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