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Invasive Ductal Carcinoma of the Male Breast Expanding From Pacemaker Pocket Decubitus
Author(s) -
KNEZ IGOR,
CERWENKA HERWIG,
MOINFAR FARID,
HOFF MARTIN,
MÄCHLER HEINRICH,
ANELLIMONTI MICHAEL,
RADNER HERBERT,
RIGLER BRUNO
Publication year - 1999
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.1540-8159.1999.tb00484.x
Subject(s) - medicine , invasive ductal carcinoma , ductal carcinoma , mammary carcinoma , mastectomy , carcinoma , modified radical mastectomy , mammary gland , surgery , oncology , breast cancer , cancer
After twenty‐five Years of therapy with different unifocal pacemaking systems, an 84‐year old male patient developed a nonseptic pacemaker decubitus. A rare incidental finding of invasive ductal carcinoma of the right mammary gland was surgically treated by a generous excision of the tumor and by consecutive modified radical mastectomy. According to published literature, the association of invasive ductal carcinoma arising from a pacemaker pocket decubitus and followed by curative treatment has not been previously reported. We do conclude that pacemaker generators in close relationship to the mammary gland should be considered with suspicion.