Microfilariasis of the breast mimicking malignancy

We report a 65-year-old female who presented with a 3.5×3 cm retro-areolar lump of the right breast with associated right axillary lymphadenopathy, mimicking breast cancer. Mammography showed a well-defined mass in the central quadrant of the right breast. Fine needle aspiration cytology from the br...

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Autores principales: Chaudhuri, Tamojit, Yadava, Kamlesh, Ray, Pabitra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Images in Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3715982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23878490
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.113433
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author Chaudhuri, Tamojit
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description We report a 65-year-old female who presented with a 3.5×3 cm retro-areolar lump of the right breast with associated right axillary lymphadenopathy, mimicking breast cancer. Mammography showed a well-defined mass in the central quadrant of the right breast. Fine needle aspiration cytology from the breast lump demonstrated many microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti.
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spelling pubmed-37159822013-07-22 Microfilariasis of the breast mimicking malignancy Chaudhuri, Tamojit Yadava, Kamlesh Ray, Pabitra Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol Images in Oncology We report a 65-year-old female who presented with a 3.5×3 cm retro-areolar lump of the right breast with associated right axillary lymphadenopathy, mimicking breast cancer. Mammography showed a well-defined mass in the central quadrant of the right breast. Fine needle aspiration cytology from the breast lump demonstrated many microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3715982/ /pubmed/23878490 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5851.113433 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3715982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23878490
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