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Thursday, 14 November 2024

CASE 793: INFLAMMATORY BREAST CANCER, Dr PHAN THANH HAI, Dr TRAN THUY TRANG, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

 A 31 year-old woman with the right breast bigger fastly than the left one and red skin.

Breast ultrasound with elastography detected axillary lymph nodes and the breast tissue distortion belonging a breast cancer  BI-RADS 5 that maybe a lymphoma or an inflammatory breast cancer.






Breast MRI confirmed an inflammatory breast cancer.


But results of histopathology of lymph nodes were carcinoma and nonspecific chronic inflammation.



Later, in consultation, a chemohistoimmunostaining was done and the result was an invasive breast carcinoma of no special  type, grade 3.








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