Secretory Carcinoma in a 79- Year-Old Woman: An Exceptionally Rare Type of Breast Carcinoma

Secretory breast carcinoma is an exceptionally rare mammary gland neoplasia described mainly in adult females and children of both sexes, and very rarely in the elderly. It has particular histopathological and immunohistochemical features and a favorable prognosis. We report the case of a 79-year-ol...

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Autores principales: Montalvo, Nelson, Posso, Veronica, Redrobán, Ligia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5178850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28058101
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2016.6650
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Posso, Veronica
Redrobán, Ligia
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description Secretory breast carcinoma is an exceptionally rare mammary gland neoplasia described mainly in adult females and children of both sexes, and very rarely in the elderly. It has particular histopathological and immunohistochemical features and a favorable prognosis. We report the case of a 79-year-old Hispanic woman with a palpable breast mass. Currently, the patient is disease free after a followup period of 6 years without local recurrence or axillary lymph-nodes nor distant metastases.
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spelling pubmed-51788502017-01-05 Secretory Carcinoma in a 79- Year-Old Woman: An Exceptionally Rare Type of Breast Carcinoma Montalvo, Nelson Posso, Veronica Redrobán, Ligia Rare Tumors Case Report Secretory breast carcinoma is an exceptionally rare mammary gland neoplasia described mainly in adult females and children of both sexes, and very rarely in the elderly. It has particular histopathological and immunohistochemical features and a favorable prognosis. We report the case of a 79-year-old Hispanic woman with a palpable breast mass. Currently, the patient is disease free after a followup period of 6 years without local recurrence or axillary lymph-nodes nor distant metastases. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2016-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5178850/ /pubmed/28058101 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2016.6650 Text en ©Copyright N. Montalvo et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Secretory Carcinoma in a 79- Year-Old Woman: An Exceptionally Rare Type of Breast Carcinoma
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title_fullStr Secretory Carcinoma in a 79- Year-Old Woman: An Exceptionally Rare Type of Breast Carcinoma
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title_short Secretory Carcinoma in a 79- Year-Old Woman: An Exceptionally Rare Type of Breast Carcinoma
title_sort secretory carcinoma in a 79- year-old woman: an exceptionally rare type of breast carcinoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5178850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28058101
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2016.6650
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