Ectopic axillary breast cancer in a male patient

Ectopic breast tissue can persist in the axilla due to lack of involution of mammary glands along the mammary lines. It is rare in men, and the malignant transformation to breast cancer has occasionally been described. Differential diagnosis of any axillary tumor should include breast cancer arising...

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Autores principales: Peil, Nils, Varga, Zsuzsanna, Barysch, Marjam J., Brüssow, Cornelia, Dedes, Konstantin J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7669415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3336
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author Peil, Nils
Varga, Zsuzsanna
Barysch, Marjam J.
Brüssow, Cornelia
Dedes, Konstantin J.
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spelling pubmed-76694152020-11-23 Ectopic axillary breast cancer in a male patient Peil, Nils Varga, Zsuzsanna Barysch, Marjam J. Brüssow, Cornelia Dedes, Konstantin J. Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Ectopic breast tissue can persist in the axilla due to lack of involution of mammary glands along the mammary lines. It is rare in men, and the malignant transformation to breast cancer has occasionally been described. Differential diagnosis of any axillary tumor should include breast cancer arising at ectopic sites. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7669415/ /pubmed/33235795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3336 Text en © 2020 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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Peil, Nils
Varga, Zsuzsanna
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Brüssow, Cornelia
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Ectopic axillary breast cancer in a male patient
title Ectopic axillary breast cancer in a male patient
title_full Ectopic axillary breast cancer in a male patient
title_fullStr Ectopic axillary breast cancer in a male patient
title_full_unstemmed Ectopic axillary breast cancer in a male patient
title_short Ectopic axillary breast cancer in a male patient
title_sort ectopic axillary breast cancer in a male patient
topic Clinical Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7669415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3336
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