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Fine‐needle aspiration diagnosis of plasmacytoma presenting as breast masses in a patient on estrogen therapy for prostate cancer
Author(s) -
Vetto John T.,
Beer Tomasz M.,
Fidda Nisreen,
Ham Bruce,
JimenezLee Ricardo,
Schmidt Waldemar
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
diagnostic cytopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1097-0339
pISSN - 8755-1039
DOI - 10.1002/dc.20143
Subject(s) - medicine , prostate cancer , fine needle aspiration , breast cancer , plasmacytoma , metastatic breast cancer , prostate , concomitant , physical examination , estrogen , oncology , androgen deprivation therapy , male breast cancer , radiology , cancer , pathology , multiple myeloma , biopsy
We describe a 79‐yr‐old man with a history of androgen‐independent metastatic prostate cancer treated with exogenous estrogens presenting with bilateral breast masses associated with bilateral axillary lymphadenopathy. Although the findings on physical examination with the concomitant history of estrogen therapy for metastatic prostate cancer raised the clinical suspicion of breast cancer, fine‐needle aspiration (FNA) cytology identified the lesions as multiple myeloma. Diagn. Cytopathol. 2004;31:417–419. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.