Histologically different, synchronous, bilateral carcinoma of the male breast (a case report)
β Scribed by Edmund M. Brodie; E. Richard King
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1974
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 170 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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β¦ Synopsis
Carcinoma of the male breast is rare, representing 0.2 to 1.5%1.* of all cancers in males; less than 1% of patients with cancer of the breast are males. In a recent review of carcinoma of the male breast by Crichlow, of 1158 reported cases only 16 (1.4%) were bilateral. Three of these were reported as synchronous. Pathologic diagnoses were not reported.1 The finding of an elderly male with bilateral breast carcinoma, one side symptomatic and the other lesion an incidental finding having different histologic diagnoses, is considered worthy of reporting.
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