Breast cancer with choriocarcinomatous and neuroendocrine features

Sao Paulo Medical Journal

Osvaldo Giannotti Filho¹  Luciana Nakao Odashiro Miiji¹  Marta Vainchenker¹  Ângela Navarro Gordan¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de São Paulo Escola Paulista de Medicina Department of PathologySão Paulo,Brazil

关键词: Breast cancer;    Choriocarcinomatous features;    Choriocarcinomatous and neuroendocrine features;    Câncer de mama;    Câncer com características coriocarcinomatosas;    Câncer de mama com características coriocarcinomatosas e neuroendócrinas;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1516-31802001000400009

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

CONTEXT: Breast cancer may express the presence of b-human chorionic gonadotrophin in 12% to 18% of cases, using immunohistochemical reactions. Usually the tumors will show positivity in a few scattered cells. Breast cancer with choriocarcinomatous features, as reported by Saigo and Rosen, is a distinct variant of breast cancer. We report a case of breast cancer with choriocarcinomatous and neuroendocrine features. OBJECTIVE: This is a case report of an invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast with choriocarcinomatous and neuroendocrine features. DESIGN: Case Report. CASE REPORT: A 50-year-old Brazilian woman underwent surgery for a lump in the right breast, which had been first noticed about 3 months earlier. The surgery consisted of quadrantectomy followed by right mastectomy with ipsilateral axillary lymph node dissection. The specimen from the quadrantectomy revealed a 7 x 6.5 x 4.5 cm tumor. Histology of the lesion showed the presence of an invasive ductal carcinoma with areas of giant cells and intense atypia. The immunohistochemistry was positive in the pleomorphic areas for human chorionic gonadotrophin, while the less pleomorphic areas showed positivity for synaptophysin and chromogranin.

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