Primary Leiomyosarcoma of Breast in an Adolescent Girl: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Leiomyosarcoma of the breast is a rare neoplasm, primarily reported in older women. Only 44 cases have been reported in world literature and to the best of our knowledge, no case has been reported from India till date. We report a case of primary breast leiomyosarcoma in an adolescent girl who under...

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Autores principales: Rane, Swapnil Ulhas, Batra, Charu, Saikia, Uma Nahar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420689/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22953134
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/491984
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description Leiomyosarcoma of the breast is a rare neoplasm, primarily reported in older women. Only 44 cases have been reported in world literature and to the best of our knowledge, no case has been reported from India till date. We report a case of primary breast leiomyosarcoma in an adolescent girl who underwent a lumpectomy for rapidly increasing lump in the left breast. Here we report the histological findings and immunohistochemical profile of this entity, along with a review of existing literature.
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spelling pubmed-34206892012-09-05 Primary Leiomyosarcoma of Breast in an Adolescent Girl: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Rane, Swapnil Ulhas Batra, Charu Saikia, Uma Nahar Case Rep Pathol Case Report Leiomyosarcoma of the breast is a rare neoplasm, primarily reported in older women. Only 44 cases have been reported in world literature and to the best of our knowledge, no case has been reported from India till date. We report a case of primary breast leiomyosarcoma in an adolescent girl who underwent a lumpectomy for rapidly increasing lump in the left breast. Here we report the histological findings and immunohistochemical profile of this entity, along with a review of existing literature. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3420689/ /pubmed/22953134 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/491984 Text en Copyright © 2012 Swapnil Ulhas Rane et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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