Dual Primary Malignancy: A Rare Organ Combination

A 63-year-old female smoker was evaluated for lump over the right breast, fine needle aspiration cytology of which showed infiltrating ductal carcinoma. Investigations also revealed the presence of left upper lobe mass lesion, the biopsy of which suggested small cell carcinoma. The existence of two...

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Autores principales: Acharya, Preetam, Ramakrishna, Anand, Kanchan, Tanuj, Magazine, Rahul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4220575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25400968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/760631
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author Acharya, Preetam
Ramakrishna, Anand
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description A 63-year-old female smoker was evaluated for lump over the right breast, fine needle aspiration cytology of which showed infiltrating ductal carcinoma. Investigations also revealed the presence of left upper lobe mass lesion, the biopsy of which suggested small cell carcinoma. The existence of two malignancies having different histopathologies at anatomically distinct sites suggests the diagnosis of dual primary malignancy involving the breast and the lung which, being a rare combination, prompted us to report the case.
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spelling pubmed-42205752014-11-16 Dual Primary Malignancy: A Rare Organ Combination Acharya, Preetam Ramakrishna, Anand Kanchan, Tanuj Magazine, Rahul Case Rep Pulmonol Case Report A 63-year-old female smoker was evaluated for lump over the right breast, fine needle aspiration cytology of which showed infiltrating ductal carcinoma. Investigations also revealed the presence of left upper lobe mass lesion, the biopsy of which suggested small cell carcinoma. The existence of two malignancies having different histopathologies at anatomically distinct sites suggests the diagnosis of dual primary malignancy involving the breast and the lung which, being a rare combination, prompted us to report the case. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4220575/ /pubmed/25400968 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/760631 Text en Copyright © 2014 Preetam Acharya 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4220575/
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