Open AccessRole of FNAC in extramammary tumors metastatic to the breast
Author(s) -
Arshi Tandon,
Trupti Patel,
Kanwalpreet Kaur,
Majal Shah,
Priti Trivedi
Publication year - 2020
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/joc.joc_99_20
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , pathology , metastasis , histopathology , lymphoma , metastatic carcinoma , breast carcinoma , not otherwise specified , oncology , breast cancer , carcinoma , cancer
Metastasis to the breast of an extra-mammary origin is very rare. FNAC plays an important role in differentiating non-mammary breast metastasis from primary malignancy. This study aimed to analyze the cytomorphological criteria and its pitfalls in differentiating metastatic lesion of the breast from primary malignancy.