Open AccessCytodiagnosis of the primary breast lymphoma in a young woman
Author(s) -
Shashikant C. U. Patne,
Mohan Kumar,
Rahul Khanna
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of cytology/journal of cytology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.267
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 0974-5165
pISSN - 0970-9371
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9371.126674
Subject(s) - medicine , axillary lymphadenopathy , histopathology , lymphoma , fine needle aspiration cytology , cd20 , left breast , immunohistochemistry , pathology , fine needle aspiration , malignant lymphoma , radiology , cytology , biopsy , breast cancer , cancer
Primary breast lymphoma (PBL) is a rare entity. It represents 0.4% of malignant breast lesions and 2% of extranodal lymphomas. A 23-year-old woman presented with a left breast lump followed by palpable left axillary lymphadenopathy. Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and histopathology were diagnostic of non-Hodgkin lymphoma-large cell type. Immunohistochemistry was positive against leukocyte common antigen and CD20. Because PBLs are uncommon malignant lesions and they usually do not have characteristic clinical and imaging findings, FNAC may prove to be a simple, rapid, reliable, and cost-effective procedure for successful diagnosis of the PBL.