Primary Malignant Lymphoma of the Breast: Case report.
- Author:
Cheol Ung LEE
1
;
Kwang Man LEE
;
Kwon Mook CHAE
;
Hyang Jung CHO
;
Hyung Bae MOON
Author Information
1. Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Wonkwang university, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Primary breast lymphoma
- MeSH:
Acoustics;
Adult;
B-Lymphocytes;
Breast*;
Diagnosis;
Female;
Humans;
Lymphoma*;
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin;
Ultrasonography
- From:Journal of the Korean Surgical Society
1997;52(2):280-284
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
The authors report a case of primary breast lymphoma in a 29-year-old female patient. The patient had a growing, nontender, palpable mass in the left breast. Film-screen mammogram showed a sharply marginated mass with a thin perimeter of radiolucency, halo and slight lobulation.Sonography revealed a well marginated hypoechoic mass with posterior acoustic enhancement. The patient had undergone wide excision of mass and ipsilateral axillary dissection. Histologic examination and immuno-histochemistry confirmed a diagnosis of diffuse B-cell type non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Abdominal ultrasonography, thoracic computed tomography and bone scan, checked postoperatively, showed non-specific findings. We concluded a final diagnosis of primary breast lymphoma, and report the case with a brief review of the literatures.
