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Published on: March 30, 2018
Primary malignant lymphoma of the breast
Akihiro Takemura1, Yuji Mizukami, Teruhiko Takayama
1Division of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, 5-11-80 Kodatsuno, Kanazawa 920-0942, Japan. at@mhs.mp.kanazawa-u.ac.jp.
Abstract:
Primary malignant lymphoma of the breast is a rare tumor. Recently, we encountered a case of primary malignant lymphoma of the breast and present here the mammographic and ultrasonographic (US) findings with the pathology of this rare breast tumor. The patient was a 47-year-old woman with a left breast mass. Mammography showed a 3.0 x 1.5 cm, lobulated high-density mass with well-defined margins. US revealed a lobulated mass with fairly well-defined borders, hypoechoic and heterogenous internal echoes, and posterior acoustic enhancement. It was difficult to differentiate malignant lymphoma from breast carcinoma by imaging studies. This type of breast cancer should be added to a differential diagnosis when a solitary tumor is found in the breast on mammography.
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