Breast tumor resembling the tall cell variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma

Sing Yun Chang; David M Fleiszer; Benoît Mesurolle; Mona El Khoury; Atilla Omeroglu

doi:10.1111/j.1524-4741.2009.00773.x

Breast tumor resembling the tall cell variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma

Breast J. 2009 Sep-Oct;15(5):531-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2009.00773.x. Epub 2009 Jul 5.

Authors

Sing Yun Chang¹, David M Fleiszer, Benoît Mesurolle, Mona El Khoury, Atilla Omeroglu

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pathology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1A4. sing.chang@mail.mcgill.ca

PMID: 19594763
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2009.00773.x

Abstract

We describe the case of a 66-year-old woman with a palpable mass in her left breast. Although the diagnosis on core biopsy was an intraductal papilloma, the surgically excised lesion showed it to be an infiltrating carcinoma which appeared to arise in a complex sclerosing lesion and is similar to the recently described breast tumor resembling the tall cell variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Biopsy, Needle
Breast Neoplasms / pathology*
Breast Neoplasms / surgery
Carcinoma, Papillary / genetics
Carcinoma, Papillary / pathology*
Carcinoma, Papillary / surgery
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Genetic Variation
Humans
Mastectomy, Segmental
Neoplasm Invasiveness
Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
Thyroid Neoplasms / genetics
Thyroid Neoplasms / pathology*
Thyroid Neoplasms / surgery
Treatment Outcome