Melanocyte Colonization and Pigmentation of Breast Carcinoma: Description of Two Pathological Cases and Review of Literature

Colonization of breast carcinoma by non-neoplastic melanocytes of epidermal origin was first described by Azzopardi and Eusebi in 1977. We herein report two cases on the exceptional clinical and pathological features of this phenomenon in a 66-year-old and a 51-year-old patients. The pathogenesis is...

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Autores principales: Santoro, Angela, Angelico, Giuseppe, Fiorentino, Vincenzo, Zhang, Qianqian, Spadola, Saveria, Carlino, Angela, Sanchez, Alejandro Martin, Franceschini, Gianluca, Zannoni, Gian Franco, Mulè, Antonino
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8071371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33921072
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11040709
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author Santoro, Angela
Angelico, Giuseppe
Fiorentino, Vincenzo
Zhang, Qianqian
Spadola, Saveria
Carlino, Angela
Sanchez, Alejandro Martin
Franceschini, Gianluca
Zannoni, Gian Franco
Mulè, Antonino
author_facet Santoro, Angela
Angelico, Giuseppe
Fiorentino, Vincenzo
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description Colonization of breast carcinoma by non-neoplastic melanocytes of epidermal origin was first described by Azzopardi and Eusebi in 1977. We herein report two cases on the exceptional clinical and pathological features of this phenomenon in a 66-year-old and a 51-year-old patients. The pathogenesis is not fully understood, but a disrupted basement membrane and the role of tumoral growth factors are considered essential.
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spelling pubmed-80713712021-04-26 Melanocyte Colonization and Pigmentation of Breast Carcinoma: Description of Two Pathological Cases and Review of Literature Santoro, Angela Angelico, Giuseppe Fiorentino, Vincenzo Zhang, Qianqian Spadola, Saveria Carlino, Angela Sanchez, Alejandro Martin Franceschini, Gianluca Zannoni, Gian Franco Mulè, Antonino Diagnostics (Basel) Case Report Colonization of breast carcinoma by non-neoplastic melanocytes of epidermal origin was first described by Azzopardi and Eusebi in 1977. We herein report two cases on the exceptional clinical and pathological features of this phenomenon in a 66-year-old and a 51-year-old patients. The pathogenesis is not fully understood, but a disrupted basement membrane and the role of tumoral growth factors are considered essential. MDPI 2021-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8071371/ /pubmed/33921072 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11040709 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Santoro, Angela
Angelico, Giuseppe
Fiorentino, Vincenzo
Zhang, Qianqian
Spadola, Saveria
Carlino, Angela
Sanchez, Alejandro Martin
Franceschini, Gianluca
Zannoni, Gian Franco
Mulè, Antonino
Melanocyte Colonization and Pigmentation of Breast Carcinoma: Description of Two Pathological Cases and Review of Literature
title Melanocyte Colonization and Pigmentation of Breast Carcinoma: Description of Two Pathological Cases and Review of Literature
title_full Melanocyte Colonization and Pigmentation of Breast Carcinoma: Description of Two Pathological Cases and Review of Literature
title_fullStr Melanocyte Colonization and Pigmentation of Breast Carcinoma: Description of Two Pathological Cases and Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Melanocyte Colonization and Pigmentation of Breast Carcinoma: Description of Two Pathological Cases and Review of Literature
title_short Melanocyte Colonization and Pigmentation of Breast Carcinoma: Description of Two Pathological Cases and Review of Literature
title_sort melanocyte colonization and pigmentation of breast carcinoma: description of two pathological cases and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8071371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33921072
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11040709
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