Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of the Breast: A Case Report

This paper concerns a case of Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma (MFH) of the Breast in a 73-years-old woman. A lump was found in her right breast, measuring 1.7 cm in diameter. Surgical excision followed, and pathology revealed a highly atypical spindle cell tumor. Immunohistochemistry along the histol...

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Autores principales: Miliaras, Dimosthenis, Konstantinides, Emmanouel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22953136
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/579245
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description This paper concerns a case of Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma (MFH) of the Breast in a 73-years-old woman. A lump was found in her right breast, measuring 1.7 cm in diameter. Surgical excision followed, and pathology revealed a highly atypical spindle cell tumor. Immunohistochemistry along the histological features, excluded the possibility of carcinoma, malignant phyllodes tumor, or another type of pure sarcoma. There was no history of previous irradiation in the region. MFH is among the rarest types of sarcoma of the breast, and most of the times behaves aggressively. Excision with wide, free-of-tumor margins is the most effective treatment, when feasible.
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spelling pubmed-34206912012-09-05 Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of the Breast: A Case Report Miliaras, Dimosthenis Konstantinides, Emmanouel Case Rep Pathol Case Report This paper concerns a case of Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma (MFH) of the Breast in a 73-years-old woman. A lump was found in her right breast, measuring 1.7 cm in diameter. Surgical excision followed, and pathology revealed a highly atypical spindle cell tumor. Immunohistochemistry along the histological features, excluded the possibility of carcinoma, malignant phyllodes tumor, or another type of pure sarcoma. There was no history of previous irradiation in the region. MFH is among the rarest types of sarcoma of the breast, and most of the times behaves aggressively. Excision with wide, free-of-tumor margins is the most effective treatment, when feasible. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3420691/ /pubmed/22953136 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/579245 Text en Copyright © 2012 D. Miliaras and E. Konstantinides. 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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title_short Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of the Breast: A Case Report
title_sort malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the breast: a case report
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