Metastatic ductal adenocarcinoma of the breast presenting with pericardial effusion—Challenges in the diagnosis of breast cancer

Breast cancer is a common entity that can be difficult to diagnose. This case demonstrates the limitations of breast cancer diagnostics. Particularly, how the available imaging techniques and even biopsy can potentially miss a malignancy. It exemplifies the role immunohistochemistry staining plays i...

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Autores principales: Chahin, Michael, Seegobin, Karan, Maharaj, Satish, Ramsubeik, Karishma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6935662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31893064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2497
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author Chahin, Michael
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spelling pubmed-69356622019-12-31 Metastatic ductal adenocarcinoma of the breast presenting with pericardial effusion—Challenges in the diagnosis of breast cancer Chahin, Michael Seegobin, Karan Maharaj, Satish Ramsubeik, Karishma Clin Case Rep Case Reports Breast cancer is a common entity that can be difficult to diagnose. This case demonstrates the limitations of breast cancer diagnostics. Particularly, how the available imaging techniques and even biopsy can potentially miss a malignancy. It exemplifies the role immunohistochemistry staining plays in the diagnosis of cancers of unclear origin. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6935662/ /pubmed/31893064 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2497 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Metastatic ductal adenocarcinoma of the breast presenting with pericardial effusion—Challenges in the diagnosis of breast cancer
title Metastatic ductal adenocarcinoma of the breast presenting with pericardial effusion—Challenges in the diagnosis of breast cancer
title_full Metastatic ductal adenocarcinoma of the breast presenting with pericardial effusion—Challenges in the diagnosis of breast cancer
title_fullStr Metastatic ductal adenocarcinoma of the breast presenting with pericardial effusion—Challenges in the diagnosis of breast cancer
title_full_unstemmed Metastatic ductal adenocarcinoma of the breast presenting with pericardial effusion—Challenges in the diagnosis of breast cancer
title_short Metastatic ductal adenocarcinoma of the breast presenting with pericardial effusion—Challenges in the diagnosis of breast cancer
title_sort metastatic ductal adenocarcinoma of the breast presenting with pericardial effusion—challenges in the diagnosis of breast cancer
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6935662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31893064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2497
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