Primary Stromal Breast Sarcoma with Concomitant Contralateral Carcinoma: A Rare Case from Syria

Bilateral breast cancers are rare cases encountered and are usually the same type in both sides. Only very few cases were reported to have different histological types of neoplasia involving sarcoma. Moreover, sarcomas rarely originate from the breast as a primary lesion whereas the common presentat...

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Published inCase reports in oncological medicine Vol. 2019; no. 2019; pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors Saifo, Maher S., Al zohaily, Hasan, Homsi, Mohannad, Al khudari, Rawan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 10.09.2019
Hindawi
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Hindawi Limited
Subjects
Antigens
Biopsy
Breast cancer
Calcification
Cancer therapies
Case Report
Case reports
Chemotherapy
Epidemiology
Health aspects
Histopathology
Mammography
Medical imaging
Metastasis
Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas
Oncology
Radiotherapy
Sarcoma
Tumors
Syria
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Summary:Bilateral breast cancers are rare cases encountered and are usually the same type in both sides. Only very few cases were reported to have different histological types of neoplasia involving sarcoma. Moreover, sarcomas rarely originate from the breast as a primary lesion whereas the common presentation is having angiosarcoma following radiotherapy. In this report, we present a rare case of a Syrian 43-year-old woman having two distinct primary lesions in the breasts: invasive ductal carcinoma and contralateral stromal sarcoma.
Bibliography:Academic Editor: Jose I. Mayordomo
ISSN:2090-6706
2090-6714
DOI:10.1155/2019/6460847