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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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 Zhang, Qianqian Spadola, Saveria Carlino, Angela Sanchez, Alejandro Martin Franceschini, Gianluca Zannoni, Gian Franco Mulè, Antonino |
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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/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report 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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