Open AccessMelanoma metastatic to a ruptured silicone breast implant capsule
Author(s) -
Mark James Wilsher,
Nicholas J Moncrieff
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of pathology and microbiology/indian journal of pathology and microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.217
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 0974-5130
pISSN - 0377-4929
DOI - 10.4103/0377-4929.94867
Subject(s) - medicine , melanoma , metastasis , malignancy , breast carcinoma , carcinoma , implant , oncology , pathology , metastatic carcinoma , breast cancer , cancer , cancer research , surgery
Metastasis to the breast is rare and most commonly represents spread from a contra-lateral primary mammary carcinoma. Metastasis of solid non-mammary carcinoma is very rare and melanoma and neuro-endocrine bronchogenic carcinoma are the more common primary neoplasms implicated. In up to half of affected individuals, there may be no prior diagnosis of malignancy. Breast metastasis by melanoma to our knowledge has never been described to an augmented breast, moreover, to a ruptured implant capsule.