Granular cell tumour of the breast: A rare presentation of a breast mass in an elderly female with a subsequent breast cancer diagnosis

A 74-year-old female patient presented with a hard breast mass and dimpling with a clinical suspicion of a carcinoma. Histological evaluation revealed a granular cell tumour. Granular cell tumour is a rare neoplasm, mostly benign in origin that may arise in every body site, 5%–15% of cases occur in...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Al-Balas, Mahmoud, De Leo, Antonio, Serra, Margherita, Santini, Donatella, Taffurelli, Mario
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6457014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31007916
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X19841154
_version_ 1783409844656537600
author Al-Balas, Mahmoud
De Leo, Antonio
Serra, Margherita
Santini, Donatella
Taffurelli, Mario
author_facet Al-Balas, Mahmoud
De Leo, Antonio
Serra, Margherita
Santini, Donatella
Taffurelli, Mario
author_sort Al-Balas, Mahmoud
collection PubMed
description A 74-year-old female patient presented with a hard breast mass and dimpling with a clinical suspicion of a carcinoma. Histological evaluation revealed a granular cell tumour. Granular cell tumour is a rare neoplasm, mostly benign in origin that may arise in every body site, 5%–15% of cases occur in the breast. It is strongly suggested that granular cell tumours origin is Schwann cells. Clinically, granular cell tumours presentation may mimic mammary carcinoma and their similar features on mammography and ultrasound make it difficult to differentiate between them.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-6457014
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2019
publisher SAGE Publications
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-64570142019-04-19 Granular cell tumour of the breast: A rare presentation of a breast mass in an elderly female with a subsequent breast cancer diagnosis Al-Balas, Mahmoud De Leo, Antonio Serra, Margherita Santini, Donatella Taffurelli, Mario SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report A 74-year-old female patient presented with a hard breast mass and dimpling with a clinical suspicion of a carcinoma. Histological evaluation revealed a granular cell tumour. Granular cell tumour is a rare neoplasm, mostly benign in origin that may arise in every body site, 5%–15% of cases occur in the breast. It is strongly suggested that granular cell tumours origin is Schwann cells. Clinically, granular cell tumours presentation may mimic mammary carcinoma and their similar features on mammography and ultrasound make it difficult to differentiate between them. SAGE Publications 2019-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6457014/ /pubmed/31007916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X19841154 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
spellingShingle Case Report
Al-Balas, Mahmoud
De Leo, Antonio
Serra, Margherita
Santini, Donatella
Taffurelli, Mario
Granular cell tumour of the breast: A rare presentation of a breast mass in an elderly female with a subsequent breast cancer diagnosis
title Granular cell tumour of the breast: A rare presentation of a breast mass in an elderly female with a subsequent breast cancer diagnosis
title_full Granular cell tumour of the breast: A rare presentation of a breast mass in an elderly female with a subsequent breast cancer diagnosis
title_fullStr Granular cell tumour of the breast: A rare presentation of a breast mass in an elderly female with a subsequent breast cancer diagnosis
title_full_unstemmed Granular cell tumour of the breast: A rare presentation of a breast mass in an elderly female with a subsequent breast cancer diagnosis
title_short Granular cell tumour of the breast: A rare presentation of a breast mass in an elderly female with a subsequent breast cancer diagnosis
title_sort granular cell tumour of the breast: a rare presentation of a breast mass in an elderly female with a subsequent breast cancer diagnosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6457014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31007916
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X19841154
work_keys_str_mv AT albalasmahmoud granularcelltumourofthebreastararepresentationofabreastmassinanelderlyfemalewithasubsequentbreastcancerdiagnosis
AT deleoantonio granularcelltumourofthebreastararepresentationofabreastmassinanelderlyfemalewithasubsequentbreastcancerdiagnosis
AT serramargherita granularcelltumourofthebreastararepresentationofabreastmassinanelderlyfemalewithasubsequentbreastcancerdiagnosis
AT santinidonatella granularcelltumourofthebreastararepresentationofabreastmassinanelderlyfemalewithasubsequentbreastcancerdiagnosis
AT taffurellimario granularcelltumourofthebreastararepresentationofabreastmassinanelderlyfemalewithasubsequentbreastcancerdiagnosis

Ejemplares similares