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Published on: July 12, 2021
Adenomyoepithelioma of the breast, presenting as a cancer
Giovanna Gatti1, Giuseppe Viale, Serife Simsek
1Senology Division, European Oncology Institute, Milan, Italy. giovanna.gatti@ieo.it
Aims And Background:
Adenomyoepithelioma is a rare lesion that can involve the breast tissue. The diagnostic appearance of the lesion can give rise to a difficult differential diagnosis with breast carcinoma.
Patients And Methods:
We report our experience with a case of adenomyoepithelioma whose differential diagnosis with a breast carcinoma was particularly difficult, leading to surgery for definitive histology.
Discussion:
Few papers are available with evidence about adenomyoepithelioma. The difficult differential diagnosis and the potentiality of malignant evolution of this lesion could in principle justify a conservative surgical approach for final histology.
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