{"title":"Carcinoma breast masquerading as extramedullary plasmacytoma breast: An unusual case report with review of literature","authors":"Nidhi Mahajan, Annapurna Saksena, Parth Desai, Seema Kaushal, Shyama Jain, Ronak Patel","doi":"10.1016/j.ctrc.2016.04.001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fine needle aspiration cytology continues to be the first line modality for definitive diagnosis of palpable and non palpable breast masses. Despite its high accuracy, some cases may pose a diagnostic dilemma. We present a case of a 42 year old female who was clinico-radiologically and cytologically mislabelled as plasmacytoma but was subsequently diagnosed as poorly differentiated carcinoma breast on histopathology and immunohistochemistry. Aspiration cytology is a minimally invasive procedure with rapid turn around time but in cases with unusual cytological picture, a core biopsy along with immunohistochemistry must accompany cytology to maximize the preoperative diagnosis of malignant breast lesions in order to ensure appropriate management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":90461,"journal":{"name":"Cancer treatment communications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ctrc.2016.04.001","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cancer treatment communications","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213089616300299","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Fine needle aspiration cytology continues to be the first line modality for definitive diagnosis of palpable and non palpable breast masses. Despite its high accuracy, some cases may pose a diagnostic dilemma. We present a case of a 42 year old female who was clinico-radiologically and cytologically mislabelled as plasmacytoma but was subsequently diagnosed as poorly differentiated carcinoma breast on histopathology and immunohistochemistry. Aspiration cytology is a minimally invasive procedure with rapid turn around time but in cases with unusual cytological picture, a core biopsy along with immunohistochemistry must accompany cytology to maximize the preoperative diagnosis of malignant breast lesions in order to ensure appropriate management.