A Unique Presentation of Occult Primary Breast Cancer with a Review of the Literature

We are reporting a case of a 34-year-old woman with occult primary breast cancer discovered after initially presenting with neurological symptoms. She was successfully treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by definitive axillary lymph node dissection and ipsilateral whole breast radiotherap...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Inaya, Dharmarajan, Kavita, Tiersten, Amy, Bleiweiss, Ira, Schmidt, Hank, Green, Sheryl, Bakst, Richard L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4381685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25866689
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/102963
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author Ahmed, Inaya
Dharmarajan, Kavita
Tiersten, Amy
Bleiweiss, Ira
Schmidt, Hank
Green, Sheryl
Bakst, Richard L.
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description We are reporting a case of a 34-year-old woman with occult primary breast cancer discovered after initially presenting with neurological symptoms. She was successfully treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by definitive axillary lymph node dissection and ipsilateral whole breast radiotherapy. The case presented is unique due to the rarity of occult primary breast cancer, especially in light of her initial confounding neurological signs and symptoms, which highlights the importance of careful staging.
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spelling pubmed-43816852015-04-12 A Unique Presentation of Occult Primary Breast Cancer with a Review of the Literature Ahmed, Inaya Dharmarajan, Kavita Tiersten, Amy Bleiweiss, Ira Schmidt, Hank Green, Sheryl Bakst, Richard L. Case Rep Oncol Med Case Report We are reporting a case of a 34-year-old woman with occult primary breast cancer discovered after initially presenting with neurological symptoms. She was successfully treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by definitive axillary lymph node dissection and ipsilateral whole breast radiotherapy. The case presented is unique due to the rarity of occult primary breast cancer, especially in light of her initial confounding neurological signs and symptoms, which highlights the importance of careful staging. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4381685/ /pubmed/25866689 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/102963 Text en Copyright © 2015 Inaya Ahmed 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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Ahmed, Inaya
Dharmarajan, Kavita
Tiersten, Amy
Bleiweiss, Ira
Schmidt, Hank
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Bakst, Richard L.
A Unique Presentation of Occult Primary Breast Cancer with a Review of the Literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4381685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25866689
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/102963
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