Thick-needle vacuum-assisted biopsy technique for inflammatory breast carcinoma diagnosis

Acta Cirurgica Brasileira

Erdinc Kamer²  Haluk Recai Unalp²  Taner Akguner²  Seyran Yigit¹  Mustafa Peskersoy²  Mehmet Ali Onal² 

[1],Izmir Ataturk Training and Research Hospital Department of General Surgery Izmir,Turkey

关键词: Biopsy;    Needle;    Breast Neoplasms;    Biópsia por Agulha;    Neoplasias Mamárias;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-86502006000600012

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

PURPOSE: Inflammatory breast carcinoma (IBC) is a rare clinicopathological cancer type with unique clinical features and a poor prognosis. In this disease, there is generally no palpable mass in the breast. IBC can be mistakenly diagnosed as mastitis and patients may receive a delayed diagnosis and treatment, since these two disorders cause similar pathological appearences on the breast. Clinical suspicion of the disease followed by histopathological observation of occluded dermal lympthatics by tumor emboli leads to definitive diagnosis of IBC. METHODS: Here, we report our experiences in diagnosing IBC using Thick-Needle Aspiration Biopsy (TNAB). RESULTS: Eight patients having clinically suspected IBC, received TNAB. IBC was definitively diagnosed upon observation in histopathological examination of occluded dermal lymphatics by tumor emboli since TNAB allowed adequate tissue sampling. CONCLUSION: In this study, we showed that IBC can be reliably diagnosed using TNAB.

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