Invasive lobular carcinoma arising in accessory breast tissue

BACKGROUND: Lobular carcinoma in accessory breast tissue is a rare occurrence. We present such a case in a 61-year-old woman. CASE PRESENTATION: A skin nodule in the axillary skin on excision biopsy revealed invasive lobular carcinoma. CONCLUSIONS: Carcinoma in accessory breast tissue is uncommon es...

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Autores principales: Devine, Catriona, Courtney, Carol-Ann, Deb, Rahul, Agrawal, Amit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3598206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23442311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-47
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author Devine, Catriona
Courtney, Carol-Ann
Deb, Rahul
Agrawal, Amit
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description BACKGROUND: Lobular carcinoma in accessory breast tissue is a rare occurrence. We present such a case in a 61-year-old woman. CASE PRESENTATION: A skin nodule in the axillary skin on excision biopsy revealed invasive lobular carcinoma. CONCLUSIONS: Carcinoma in accessory breast tissue is uncommon especially invasive lobular type. A high index of suspicion may avoid late diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-35982062013-03-16 Invasive lobular carcinoma arising in accessory breast tissue Devine, Catriona Courtney, Carol-Ann Deb, Rahul Agrawal, Amit World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Lobular carcinoma in accessory breast tissue is a rare occurrence. We present such a case in a 61-year-old woman. CASE PRESENTATION: A skin nodule in the axillary skin on excision biopsy revealed invasive lobular carcinoma. CONCLUSIONS: Carcinoma in accessory breast tissue is uncommon especially invasive lobular type. A high index of suspicion may avoid late diagnosis. BioMed Central 2013-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3598206/ /pubmed/23442311 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-47 Text en Copyright ©2013 Devine 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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title_short Invasive lobular carcinoma arising in accessory breast tissue
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3598206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23442311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-11-47
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