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Bilateral Breast Lumps as a Presentation of Disseminated Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Lung

We present the case of a 65-year-old female who presented to our hospital with nodular swelling in her breast that first appeared in the right upper quadrant 10 months earlier, followed by involvement of the left upper quadrant along with nodular swelling in the right inguinal region for the past si...

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Autores principales: Dharmshaktu, Pramila, Jain, Ankur, Gupta, Naresh, Garg, Abhilasha, Kaushal, Seema
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Libertas Academica 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3937271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24653651
http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/CCRep.S13832
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author Dharmshaktu, Pramila
Jain, Ankur
Gupta, Naresh
Garg, Abhilasha
Kaushal, Seema
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Jain, Ankur
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description We present the case of a 65-year-old female who presented to our hospital with nodular swelling in her breast that first appeared in the right upper quadrant 10 months earlier, followed by involvement of the left upper quadrant along with nodular swelling in the right inguinal region for the past six months. She was also complaining of breathlessness on exertion and right-sided pleuritic chest pain for the past one year. Her chest X-ray showed well defined consolidation in the right lower lobe of the lung with pleural effusion. Further pleural tap showed malignant cells with squamous differentiation. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) from breast lumps was suggestive of malignant cells with morphology of cells likely to be squamous. CT-guided biopsy of the lung mass showed moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the lung. She succumbed to her illness following severe respiratory distress. Breast lump secondary to lung malignancy is very rare. Squamous cell carcinoma presenting as breast metastasis is a very rare presentation and reported in few cases. No previous case reporting bilateral breast lumps as a presentation of squamous cell carcinoma of the lung could be found in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-39372712014-03-20 Bilateral Breast Lumps as a Presentation of Disseminated Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Lung Dharmshaktu, Pramila Jain, Ankur Gupta, Naresh Garg, Abhilasha Kaushal, Seema Clin Med Insights Case Rep Case Report We present the case of a 65-year-old female who presented to our hospital with nodular swelling in her breast that first appeared in the right upper quadrant 10 months earlier, followed by involvement of the left upper quadrant along with nodular swelling in the right inguinal region for the past six months. She was also complaining of breathlessness on exertion and right-sided pleuritic chest pain for the past one year. Her chest X-ray showed well defined consolidation in the right lower lobe of the lung with pleural effusion. Further pleural tap showed malignant cells with squamous differentiation. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) from breast lumps was suggestive of malignant cells with morphology of cells likely to be squamous. CT-guided biopsy of the lung mass showed moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of the lung. She succumbed to her illness following severe respiratory distress. Breast lump secondary to lung malignancy is very rare. Squamous cell carcinoma presenting as breast metastasis is a very rare presentation and reported in few cases. No previous case reporting bilateral breast lumps as a presentation of squamous cell carcinoma of the lung could be found in the literature. Libertas Academica 2014-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3937271/ /pubmed/24653651 http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/CCRep.S13832 Text en © 2014 the author(s), publisher and licensee Libertas Academica Ltd. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 3.0 License.
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Dharmshaktu, Pramila
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Gupta, Naresh
Garg, Abhilasha
Kaushal, Seema
Bilateral Breast Lumps as a Presentation of Disseminated Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Lung
title Bilateral Breast Lumps as a Presentation of Disseminated Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Lung
title_full Bilateral Breast Lumps as a Presentation of Disseminated Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Lung
title_fullStr Bilateral Breast Lumps as a Presentation of Disseminated Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Lung
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral Breast Lumps as a Presentation of Disseminated Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Lung
title_short Bilateral Breast Lumps as a Presentation of Disseminated Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Lung
title_sort bilateral breast lumps as a presentation of disseminated squamous cell carcinoma of lung
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3937271/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24653651
http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/CCRep.S13832
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