title: Ectopic breast cancer: a case report and review of the Japanese literature.
abstract: We report a rare case of ectopic breast cancer in a 68-year-old woman, successfully treated by surgery and chemotherapy. We found 37 cases including our case in the Japanese literature between 1933 to 1997. Our review demonstrated that the clinical features of Japanese patients who developed ectopic breast cancer was similar to previous foreign reports.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Okayama Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nakao
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Notohara
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001940:Breast; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D018270:Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / Q000473:pathology*; D002828:Choristoma / Q000473:pathology*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D014463:Ultrasonography