Tumoral Calcinosis: An Uncommon Cause for a Mass in a Reconstructed Breast

Tumoral calcinosis is a rare clinical and histopathological syndrome whose exact etiology is unknown. We present a case of a 57-year-old woman who presents with a painful lump in her right chest after bilateral breast reconstructions for bilateral asynchronous breast cancers. It is important to be a...

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Autores principales: Koh, Eugene, Dean, Nicola R., Watson, David I., Carter, Christopher D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4995718/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27579225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000000687
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description Tumoral calcinosis is a rare clinical and histopathological syndrome whose exact etiology is unknown. We present a case of a 57-year-old woman who presents with a painful lump in her right chest after bilateral breast reconstructions for bilateral asynchronous breast cancers. It is important to be aware of all possible differential diagnoses in a patient presenting with a chest mass after mastectomy and reconstruction for breast cancer as not all lesions of this type represent recurrent cancer.
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spelling pubmed-49957182016-08-30 Tumoral Calcinosis: An Uncommon Cause for a Mass in a Reconstructed Breast Koh, Eugene Dean, Nicola R. Watson, David I. Carter, Christopher D. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open Case Report Tumoral calcinosis is a rare clinical and histopathological syndrome whose exact etiology is unknown. We present a case of a 57-year-old woman who presents with a painful lump in her right chest after bilateral breast reconstructions for bilateral asynchronous breast cancers. It is important to be aware of all possible differential diagnoses in a patient presenting with a chest mass after mastectomy and reconstruction for breast cancer as not all lesions of this type represent recurrent cancer. Wolters Kluwer Health 2016-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4995718/ /pubmed/27579225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000000687 Text en Copyright © 2016 The Authors. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American Society of Plastic Surgeons. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially.
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