Hypersecretory ductal carcinoma cystic infiltrating breast
Keywords:
breast, carcinomaAbstract
The cystic hypersecretory carcinoma
constitutes a rare variant of mammary duct carcinoma.
l t is characterized, both macro - and
microscopically - by a marked multicystic secretory
image with gelatinoid contents similar to those of
thyroid colloid, as we/1 as a carcinomatous
micropapillary coating over adjacent cysts and ducts.
The majority of cases published involve intraduct
carcinomas with diameters as large as 1 O cms.
The patient, a 43 year-old woman, consulted
with respect to a palpable tumoration in left breast.
Mammography showed an image which was compatible
with that of a phy/lode cystosarcoma; the
possibility of its being a malignant lesion was not to
be discarded. Quadrantectomy, supplemented by
e x temporaneous study, was not conclusive.
Anatomopathologíc examination of cross sections in
paraffin proved it to be an l nfiltrating C ystic
Hypersecretory Duct Carcinoma. Subsequent axillary
dissection was marked by the absence of metastases
in lymph nodes.
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