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Τρίτη 14 Νοεμβρίου 2017

Carcinoma en cuirasse in a young female

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Cancer or carcinoma en cuirasse is an infrequent clinical presentation of metastatic cutaneous carcinoma.1 In this condition, the skin of the chest wall is studded with carcinomatous indurated plaques. It is often seen after a patient of breast cancer undergoes mastectomy operation and develops local recurrence. The patient usually presents after a few months or years after the surgery2 (figure 1). This patient, a 22-year-old woman, had already undergone right modified radical mastectomy for infiltrating ductal carcinoma (IDC) Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) grade II with triple-negative receptor status, 1 year ago. She had now presented with a lump in the left breast and multiple cutaneous lesions on the chest wall on the right side and on the left breast since the past 5 months (figure 2). Cutaneous metastasis or carcinoma en cuirasse has occurred on the right side after mastectomy, whereas they are...



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