Open AccessImplantation of breast cancer in a transplanted nipple: A plea for preoperative screening
Author(s) -
Cucin Robert L.,
Gaston James P.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
ca: a cancer journal for clinicians
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 62.937
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1542-4863
pISSN - 0007-9235
DOI - 10.3322/canjclin.31.5.281
Subject(s) - medicine , groin , areola , surgery , breast cancer , mastectomy , left breast , modified radical mastectomy , breast carcinoma , carcinoma , dissection (medical) , mammaplasty , cancer , general surgery
A 45-year-old, white woman, following mastectomy for a large inflammatory carcinoma of the left breast with multiple involved nodes, had her nipple body-banked in her left groin. She subsequently developed locally recurrent breast carcinoma in the areola of the transplanted nipple with metastases to the groin nodes, for which she received a radical groin dissection. Clinical and pathologic criteria for screening the nipples to be preserved are reviewed, and a plea is made for employing similarly stringent screens to eliminate future cases such as this.