Aspiration biopsy in a case of apocrine adenocarcinoma with foam cells (myoblastomatoid or histiocytoid adenocarcinoma)

Diagn Cytopathol. 2002 May;26(5):320-3. doi: 10.1002/dc.10103.

Abstract

We found only one report of a case of apocrine adenocarcinoma with foamy cells diagnosed by aspiration biopsy. Herein, we describe a second case with cytologic, histologic, and immunohistochemical findings and discuss the differential diagnosis of foamy cells on aspiration smears obtained from mammary nodules.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / pathology*
  • Apocrine Glands / pathology*
  • Biopsy, Needle
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Foam Cells / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Middle Aged
  • Sweat Gland Neoplasms / pathology*