Concurrent interfollicular Hodgkin's disease and metastatic breast carcinoma in lymph nodes.
The clinical and pathological findings are reported concerning a 73-year-old woman with progressive metastatic carcinoma of the left breast, who developed interfollicular Hodgkin's disease within the right cervical lymph nodes. Metastatic carcinoma and Hodgkin's disease were present concurrently as a "collision tumor' in the lymph nodes examined. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first description of a collision tumor with these particular histologic components in this tissue. The factors influencing the coexistence and the order of appearance of the two pathologies in the present case remain unknown.
Division of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland.
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Weintraub
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Remadi
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D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000473:pathology*; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology*