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Keloid type of fibromatosis‐like metaplastic carcinoma of the breast with transformation into biphasic tumour in recurrences and lymph node metastases
Author(s) -
Lamovec Janez,
Gasljevic Gorana
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
histopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.626
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1365-2559
pISSN - 0309-0167
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2010.03603.x
Subject(s) - medicine , metaplastic carcinoma , lymph node , fibromatosis , pathology , general surgery , oncology , breast cancer , cancer
International audienceMetaplastic breast carcinoma with fibromatosis-like pattern of growth is rare and recently described type of breast carcinoma. In a few studies it was demonstrated that these tumors have a high risk of local reccurence and that they may occasionally metastasize distantly but not to the axillary lymph nodes. We report a case of fibromatosis-like metaplastic carcinoma with unusual morphology that progressively changed in several reccurences and metastasized to axillary lymph nodes and also distantly