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Paget's disease of the breast
Author(s) -
Ashikari Roy,
Park Keun,
Huvos Andrew G.,
Urban Jerome A.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197009)26:3<680::aid-cncr2820260329>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - medicine , axilla , mastectomy , modified radical mastectomy , radical mastectomy , surgery , carcinoma , radiology , general surgery , breast cancer , cancer
Abstract Two‐hundred and fourteen cases of histologically proven Paget's disease of the breast were seen at Memorial Hospital during the period 1950 through 1968. Ninety‐six patients were without palpable masses, clinically, and 113 had Paget's disease of the nipple with palpable masses. Two thirds of the patients without palpable masses, clinically, had noninfiltrating carcinoma, and the majority of them had negative nodes in the axilla; accordingly, they have a good prognosis. Ninety percent of the patients with palpable masses had infiltrating carcinoma, and two thirds of them had positive nodes in the axilla. According to this study, modified radical mastectomy is the treatment of choice for the patient who does not have a palpable mass. Radical mastectomy should be performed on the patient who has a palpable mass.