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Carcinoma of the Breast and Pacemaker Generators
Author(s) -
ROTHENBERGERJANZEN KATRIN,
FLUECKIGER ANDREAS,
BIGLER RUDOLF
Publication year - 1998
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.1540-8159.1998.tb00137.x
Subject(s) - medicine , tamoxifen , right breast , left breast , metastasis , breast cancer , breast carcinoma , distant metastasis , carcinoma , adenocarcinoma , general surgery , oncology , cancer
A 90‐yearold woman developed intraductol adenocarcinoma (TNM classification pT2, G2) of the left breast 18 years after initial pacemaker implantation deep to the left breast. There was no evidence of local or distant metastasis and she was treated with local excision and tamoxifen.