title: Recurrent Hodgkin's disease in the breast. Diagnosis of a case by fine needle aspiration and immunocytochemistry.
abstract: Recurrent Hodgkin's disease involving the breast in a 17-year-old girl was diagnosed by fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy of a solitary mass that developed one year after "curative" radiation. Benign breast disease and breast carcinoma were ruled out upon cytologic examination of the FNA smears, which contained diagnostic Reed-Sternberg cells and the characteristic polymorphic background elements. Follow-up immunoperoxidase staining for Leu-M1 on destained smears confirmed the diagnosis. Definitive therapeutic measures were initiated after the FNA diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Louisville, KY 40292.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Corrigan
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sewell
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology