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Case Reports
. 2013 Spring;6(2):118-21.

An intracystic papillary carcinoma of the breast

Donya Farrokh  1 , Mahboobeh Abedi  1 , Yalda Fallah Rastegar  2
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Case Reports

An intracystic papillary carcinoma of the breast

Donya Farrokh et al. Iran J Cancer Prev. 2013 Spring.

Abstract

Intracystic carcinoma of the breast is a rare form of breast carcinoma. Among allmalignant breast tumors, this lesion has an incidence of 0.2-0.5%. These neoplasms have certain characteristic imaging findings which help to differentiate these lesions from other focal breast abnormalities.This report is on the case of a 48-year-old woman with a palpable, painless lump in her right breast. Mammography demonstrated an oval well-circumscribed mass without calcification. Breast ultrasonography showed a cystic lesion with an intracystic solid component projecting from its posterior wall. Cyst aspiration revealed a hemorrhagic fluid and a suspicious cytology. Excisional biopsy revealed papillary carcinoma suggesting of intracystic papillary carcinoma.

Keywords: Breast cancer; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mammography; Ultrasonography.

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Figures

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Figure 1
Right craniocaudal mammogram shows a dense mass with a lobulated well-defined margin.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Sonogram shows a cystic mass with an intracystic solid component and echogenic internal septa.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Photograph of a gross specimen shows a lobulated mass with branching and irregular surface within a cystic space.
Figure 4
Figure 4
Photomicrograph of a histopathological specimen shows multiple papillae of single epithelial cell type and poorly formed cytoplasmic cores. (H & E, ×100)
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