Adenocarcinoma of the breast.
This brief case report illustrates the predicament facing the practicing physician who encounters a patient in whom psychgological barriers equal or outweigh the presenting physical ailment. Although the patient presented herein had an adenocarcinoma of the breast, her psychological barriers proved a more frustrating problem.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans