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Sonographic appearance of a metastasis to the breast from a cerebellar medulloblastoma
Author(s) -
Ternier Frédéric,
Hadjaj Djamal,
Jacquemier Jocelyne
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.20698
Subject(s) - medicine , medulloblastoma , metastasis , breast cancer , cerebellum , biopsy , pathology , breast ultrasound , metastatic breast cancer , oncology , radiology , cancer , mammography
Abstract We present the case of a 29‐year‐old woman with a medulloblastoma of the cerebellum who developed a breast mass during the course of her disease. Core biopsy of the breast lesion revealed a metastatic medulloblastoma. Development of metastasis to the breast from medulloblastoma is very rare and the prognosis for such patients is poor. It is important to distinguish primary breast cancer from metastasis to the breast, because the therapeutic options as well as the prognosis are very different. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound, 2010