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Development of three different neoplasias in a patient in an 18‐year period of time
Author(s) -
HERAS P.,
GEORGOPOULOU A.P.,
HATZOPOULOS A.,
KRITIKOS K.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
european journal of cancer care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.849
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1365-2354
pISSN - 0961-5423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2008.00987.x
Subject(s) - medicine , differential diagnosis , lymphoma , malignant lymphoma , mastectomy , surgery , general surgery , breast cancer , cancer , pathology
HERAS P., GEORGOPOULOU A.P., HATZOPOULOS A. & KRITIKOS K. (2010) European Journal of Cancer Care 19, 413–416
Development of three different neoplasias in a patient in an 18‐year period of time This study presents a rare case of a patient who developed three different types of neoplasia in an 18‐year period of time. The case presents a 31‐year‐old man with a history of treated Hodgkin's lymphoma in the neck region at the age of 13 years. The patient was admitted at the General Hospital of Nafplio for differential diagnosis of pain in the right subcostal region initiated 1 month before his admission and normochromic, normocytic anaemia. The laboratory examinations lead to the diagnosis of a sarcoma in the cardioesophageal junction. The patient was subjected to total gastrectomy. Nine months later he is admitted with a palpable firm lump in the nipple of the right breast, which suggested a malignant neoplasia. The patient was subjected to modified radical mastectomy. The appearance of three different types of neoplasia in three different organ systems in the same patient and the infrequency of the specific neoplasias individually and in combination present a special interest considering the patient's genetic background and the uniqueness of the case in the international literature.