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Breast sarcoma in a pregnant patient A case report
Annali Italiani Di Chirurgia
|October 17, 2012
Abstract:
Sarcoma of the breast is a rare and heterogeneous lesion. We describe a case of a patient surgically treated for a breast lesion during pregnancy. The lesion resulted in a concentric neoplasia with the histological features of high grade sarcoma growing in a phyllodes tumor which was at the time grown in a fibroadenoma. Key words: Breast sarcoma, Non-epithelial breast tumour, Phillode, Pregnancy.
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