Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the breast: a case report and review of the literature

Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the breast is uncommon with only 21 patients documented in the literature. It can wrongly be diagnosed as medullary carcinoma and certain types of lymphoma due to undifferentiated proliferation of malignant epithelial cells with prominent lymphoid infiltration. In...

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Autores principales: Fadila, Kouhen, Faycal, Abbad, Lamiaa, Jabri, Mohammed, Belghiti, Nabil, Ismaili
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6522178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31143323
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.18.15978
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author Fadila, Kouhen
Faycal, Abbad
Lamiaa, Jabri
Mohammed, Belghiti
Nabil, Ismaili
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Nabil, Ismaili
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description Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the breast is uncommon with only 21 patients documented in the literature. It can wrongly be diagnosed as medullary carcinoma and certain types of lymphoma due to undifferentiated proliferation of malignant epithelial cells with prominent lymphoid infiltration. In this paper, we present a case of LELC of the breast in a 64-year-old female with breast LELC and a discussion based on a review of the literature.
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spelling pubmed-65221782019-05-29 Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the breast: a case report and review of the literature Fadila, Kouhen Faycal, Abbad Lamiaa, Jabri Mohammed, Belghiti Nabil, Ismaili Pan Afr Med J Case Report Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the breast is uncommon with only 21 patients documented in the literature. It can wrongly be diagnosed as medullary carcinoma and certain types of lymphoma due to undifferentiated proliferation of malignant epithelial cells with prominent lymphoid infiltration. In this paper, we present a case of LELC of the breast in a 64-year-old female with breast LELC and a discussion based on a review of the literature. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6522178/ /pubmed/31143323 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.18.15978 Text en © Kouhen Fadila et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Lamiaa, Jabri
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Nabil, Ismaili
Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the breast: a case report and review of the literature
title Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the breast: a case report and review of the literature
title_full Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the breast: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the breast: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the breast: a case report and review of the literature
title_short Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the breast: a case report and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6522178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31143323
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.32.18.15978
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