A 53-year-old female with a large breast sarcoma: A case report from Hong Kong()

Breast sarcomas are very rare and are aggressive tumors associated with a poor prognosis. We present a case of a 53-year-old female who presented to the hospital after noticing a palpable mass in the right breast. Mammography, ultrasound, and MRI investigations were done. The patient was treated wit...

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Autor principal: Yam, Max K.H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9234154/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35769124
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.05.051
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description Breast sarcomas are very rare and are aggressive tumors associated with a poor prognosis. We present a case of a 53-year-old female who presented to the hospital after noticing a palpable mass in the right breast. Mammography, ultrasound, and MRI investigations were done. The patient was treated with radical mastectomy combined with both neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemoradiotherapy. Undifferentiated pleomorphic breast sarcoma was later diagnosed.
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spelling pubmed-92341542022-06-28 A 53-year-old female with a large breast sarcoma: A case report from Hong Kong() Yam, Max K.H. Radiol Case Rep Case Report Breast sarcomas are very rare and are aggressive tumors associated with a poor prognosis. We present a case of a 53-year-old female who presented to the hospital after noticing a palpable mass in the right breast. Mammography, ultrasound, and MRI investigations were done. The patient was treated with radical mastectomy combined with both neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemoradiotherapy. Undifferentiated pleomorphic breast sarcoma was later diagnosed. Elsevier 2022-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9234154/ /pubmed/35769124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.05.051 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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A 53-year-old female with a large breast sarcoma: A case report from Hong Kong()
title A 53-year-old female with a large breast sarcoma: A case report from Hong Kong()
title_full A 53-year-old female with a large breast sarcoma: A case report from Hong Kong()
title_fullStr A 53-year-old female with a large breast sarcoma: A case report from Hong Kong()
title_full_unstemmed A 53-year-old female with a large breast sarcoma: A case report from Hong Kong()
title_short A 53-year-old female with a large breast sarcoma: A case report from Hong Kong()
title_sort 53-year-old female with a large breast sarcoma: a case report from hong kong()
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9234154/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35769124
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2022.05.051
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