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Revista Médica Electrónica
On-line version ISSN 1684-1824
Abstract
NAPOLES MORALES, Misleidy; SANCHEZ VARELA, Idania; GUTIERREZ ALEAGA, Zaili and LOPEZ REINA, Fanny. Male breast neurogenic sarcoma. A case. Rev.Med.Electrón. [online]. 2019, vol.41, n.4, pp. 1003-1011. Epub Aug 30, 2019. ISSN 1684-1824.
Breast cancer in men (BCM) is a rare clinical entity that has a unimodal presentation at the age of 71 years, and generally presents in a similar way it presents in the female sex. Its etiology remains almost unknown. Sarcomas are tumors of mesenchymal components representing from 0.2 to 1 % of all the breast tumors and less than 5 % of the total. The neurogenic sarcoma is also an extremely rare tumor. It represents around 1-2 % of the peripheral nerves tumors with malignant transformations. Due to location and histopathological rarity of this kind of tumors, much more in male patients, the authors presented the case of a male patient, aged 57 years, with the diagnosis of a left breast sarcoma. He undergone a radical mastectomy plus adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy. The immunohystochemical studies allowed arriving to the diagnosis of neurogenic sarcoma.
Keywords : neurogenic sarcoma; breast cancer; immunohistochemical studies.