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A case series of metastases to the breast from extramammary malignancies

Metastases to the breast from extra-mammary malignancies are extremely uncommon. The discovery of a breast mass in a patient with a known primary tumor elsewhere poses a diagnostic challenge to the clinician. An awareness of the various malignancies that can metastasize to the breast and accurate di...

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Autores principales: Vaidya, Tanvi, Ramani, Subhash, Rastogi, Ashita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6319108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30662213
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijri.IJRI_218_18
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description Metastases to the breast from extra-mammary malignancies are extremely uncommon. The discovery of a breast mass in a patient with a known primary tumor elsewhere poses a diagnostic challenge to the clinician. An awareness of the various malignancies that can metastasize to the breast and accurate diagnosis of the same is essential to avoid an unnecessary mastectomy and to guide further therapy. In this case series, we describe such clinical scenarios with an emphasis on the imaging features of metastases to the breast, which will enable radiologists to recognize this entity with greater ease.
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spelling pubmed-63191082019-01-18 A case series of metastases to the breast from extramammary malignancies Vaidya, Tanvi Ramani, Subhash Rastogi, Ashita Indian J Radiol Imaging Endocrine (Thyroid, Adrenal, Breast) Metastases to the breast from extra-mammary malignancies are extremely uncommon. The discovery of a breast mass in a patient with a known primary tumor elsewhere poses a diagnostic challenge to the clinician. An awareness of the various malignancies that can metastasize to the breast and accurate diagnosis of the same is essential to avoid an unnecessary mastectomy and to guide further therapy. In this case series, we describe such clinical scenarios with an emphasis on the imaging features of metastases to the breast, which will enable radiologists to recognize this entity with greater ease. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6319108/ /pubmed/30662213 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijri.IJRI_218_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Endocrine (Thyroid, Adrenal, Breast)
Vaidya, Tanvi
Ramani, Subhash
Rastogi, Ashita
A case series of metastases to the breast from extramammary malignancies
title A case series of metastases to the breast from extramammary malignancies
title_full A case series of metastases to the breast from extramammary malignancies
title_fullStr A case series of metastases to the breast from extramammary malignancies
title_full_unstemmed A case series of metastases to the breast from extramammary malignancies
title_short A case series of metastases to the breast from extramammary malignancies
title_sort case series of metastases to the breast from extramammary malignancies
topic Endocrine (Thyroid, Adrenal, Breast)
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6319108/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijri.IJRI_218_18
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