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Sarcoidosis imitating breast cancer metastasis: a case report and literature review
Sarcoidosis is a benign systematic granulomatous disorder of unknown etiology and is associated with various malignancies. However, granulomatous and metastatic lymph node lesions are difficult to distinguish even when using precise and modern diagnostic methods, such as positron emission tomography...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Chinese Anti-Cancer Association
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5069840/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27807507 http://dx.doi.org/10.20892/j.issn.2095-3941.2016.0038 |
Sumario: | Sarcoidosis is a benign systematic granulomatous disorder of unknown etiology and is associated with various malignancies. However, granulomatous and metastatic lymph node lesions are difficult to distinguish even when using precise and modern diagnostic methods, such as positron emission tomography. Thus, histological verification is the only method that can be used to accurately describe the nature of this disease. In this article, we report a case of non-luminal HER-2/neu-positive breast cancer in a patient without history of sarcoidosis and suspected to have metastatic disease. |
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