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Male Breast Cancer From Pacemaker Pocket
Author(s) -
RASMUSSEN KNUT,
GRIMSGAARD GHRISTIAN,
VIKMO HARALD,
STALSBERG HELGE
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1985.tb05891.x
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , left breast , cancer , permanent pacemaker , surgery , cardiology , oncology
One yeor following implantation of a mercury zinc pulse generator under the right breast, a 75‐year‐old man developed an ulcerative tumor of the nipple. Initially, the process was misinterpreted as a pacemaker pocket infection, until a diagnosis of papillary adenocarcinoma was made. The patient died from generalized metastases. To our knowledge, the association of a pacemaker implant and male breast cancer has not been previously reported; the probability of this occurring by chance seems rather low.