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SM Journal of Clinical Pathology

Carcinoma with Medullary Features of the Nipple: A Case Report of an Infrequent Breast Tumor with a Rare Presentation

[ ISSN : 2576-778X ]

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Received: 01-Sep-2017

Accepted: 25-Sep-2017

Published: 27-Sep-2017

Case Report | Volume 2 - Issue 1 | Article DOI :

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Raquel Civolani Marques Fernandes¹*, Felipe Andreotta Cavagna¹, Thais Menezes Cardoso da Cruz¹, Thainá Marina Furlanetti¹ and Luiz Henrique Gebrim¹˒²

¹Department of Pathology, Perola Byington Hospital, Women’s Health Reference Center, Brazil
²Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

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Raquel Civolani Marques Fernandes, Department of Pathology of Perola Byington Hospital, Av. Brigadeiro LuisAntonio, 683/ 1 andar/ Patologia, São Paulo- 01317-000, Brazil, Tel: +55-11- 984154321; Email: raquel.c.fernandes@me.com

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Breast carcinoma; Medullary features; Nipple; Triple negative

Abstract

The aim of this report is to relate an unusual clinical presentation of breast carcinoma with medullary features. A Japanese patient aged 57 complained of right nipple lump with progressive growth over the past six months. Upon physical examination, we found no nodules in the breast, except for a pedunculated tumor from her right nipple. The breast ultrasonography revealed an irregular, not circumscribed nipple lump. The mammogram did not show any pathologic findings. The biopsy confirmed a triple negative carcinoma with medullary features (MCF). Even though a case report on invasive ductal carcinoma regarding the same clinical scenario had occurred in 1996, a MCF of the nipple without any radiologic or clinical findings in the parenchyma has not been described until the present date

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Fernandes RCM, Cavagna FA, da Cruz TMC, Furlanetti TM and Gebrim LH. Carcinoma with Medullary Features of the Nipple: A Case Report of an Infrequent Breast Tumor with a Rare Presentation. SM J Clin Pathol. 2017; 2(1): 1011.