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Axillary lymphadenopathy as the primary presentation of primary peritoneal carcinoma
Bulent Berker1, Firat Ortac, Omur Ataoglu
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. bulentberker@hotmail.com
Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation
|February 20, 2003
Abstract:
The finding of isolated distant metastatic axillary lymphadenopathy without remarkable intra-abdominal disease is very unusual. We report on a patient with primary peritoneal serous carcinoma who initially presented with axillary lymphadenopathy, and was misdiagnosed as having primary breast cancer. In the case of an isolated axillary adenocarcinoma various kinds of immunohistochemical tests should be performed in order to elucidate the origin of the malignancy.