Case of breast cancer with endocrine differentiation

Int Surg. 2007 Jul-Aug;92(4):214-7.

Abstract

An 89-year-old woman presented with a chief complaint of induration in the left breast persisting for 1 month. Core needle biopsy of the lesion showed invasive breast cancer. Therefore, we diagnosed the lesion as left breast cancer and performed a modified mastectomy. On the immunohistochemical study, the tumor was positive for synaptophysin and positive in part for chromogranin-A and carcinoembryonic antigen. Therefore, we diagnosed the lesion as breast cancer with endocrine differentiation. We report the clinical and pathological features of this disease herein.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Biopsy
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology
  • Breast Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine / pathology
  • Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine / surgery*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Mastectomy, Modified Radical
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness