Apocrine carcinoma of the male breast: a case report of an exceptional tumor

Apocrine carcinoma of the male breast is an exceptional malignant tumor. It does not have a particular clinical or radiological appearance, but it's microscopically characterized by the presence of granular cells and foamy cells representing over 90% of tumor cells. These cells express most of...

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Autores principales: Sekal, Mohammed, Znati, Kaoutar, Harmouch, Taoufiq, Riffi, Afaf Amarti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25883722
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.19.294.2973
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author Sekal, Mohammed
Znati, Kaoutar
Harmouch, Taoufiq
Riffi, Afaf Amarti
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description Apocrine carcinoma of the male breast is an exceptional malignant tumor. It does not have a particular clinical or radiological appearance, but it's microscopically characterized by the presence of granular cells and foamy cells representing over 90% of tumor cells. These cells express most of the time the GCDFP-15 and the androgen receptors. This tumor is a distinct molecular entity. In this observation, we report the case of a 70 year old man presenting apocrine carcinoma of the left breast diagnosed at the stage of lung metastasis.
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spelling pubmed-43939572015-04-16 Apocrine carcinoma of the male breast: a case report of an exceptional tumor Sekal, Mohammed Znati, Kaoutar Harmouch, Taoufiq Riffi, Afaf Amarti Pan Afr Med J Case Report Apocrine carcinoma of the male breast is an exceptional malignant tumor. It does not have a particular clinical or radiological appearance, but it's microscopically characterized by the presence of granular cells and foamy cells representing over 90% of tumor cells. These cells express most of the time the GCDFP-15 and the androgen receptors. This tumor is a distinct molecular entity. In this observation, we report the case of a 70 year old man presenting apocrine carcinoma of the left breast diagnosed at the stage of lung metastasis. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4393957/ /pubmed/25883722 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.19.294.2973 Text en © Mohammed Sekal et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of 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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Apocrine carcinoma of the male breast: a case report of an exceptional tumor
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title_full Apocrine carcinoma of the male breast: a case report of an exceptional tumor
title_fullStr Apocrine carcinoma of the male breast: a case report of an exceptional tumor
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title_short Apocrine carcinoma of the male breast: a case report of an exceptional tumor
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25883722
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.19.294.2973
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