Clinically occult inflammatory carcinoma of the breast

✍ Scribed by Sidney L. Saltzstein

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 813 KB
• Volume: 34
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(197408)34:2<382::aid-cncr2820340223>3.0.co;2-m

✦ Synopsis

Four women with no clinical evidence that their breast cancers were inflammatory carcinoma were found to have tumor in the dermal lymphatics on histologic examination. All four followed the progressive course characteristic of inflammatory carcinoma. T h e term "clinically occult inflammatory carcinoma" is proposed for this presentation of this tumor. This small series s u p ports the argument that inflammatory carcinoma is a histologic rather than clinical diagnosis.