A case of breast cancer with endocrine features.
Cancer with endocrine features rarely occurs in the breast. We report a case of breast cancer with endocrine features in an 80-year-old woman. The tumors were treated by wide excision and a postoperative histopathologic diagnosis of carcinoma of the breast with endocrine features was made. Immunostaining was positive for chromogranin A, neuron-specific enolase and synaptophysin, but weakly argyrophilic. Widespread metastases occurred two months postoperatively, and the patient died of breast cancer 6 months after the first treatment
Tsuchiya
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Department of Surgery II, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, 1 Hikarigaoka, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan.
Nozawa
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Hasegawa
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Kishimoto
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Takenoshita
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000473:pathology; D018270:Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000473:pathology; D053379:Chromogranin A; D002864:Chromogranins / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010751:Phosphopyruvate Hydratase / Q000032:analysis*; D016708:Synaptophysin / Q000032:analysis*
D053379:Chromogranin A; D002864:Chromogranins; D016708:Synaptophysin; D010751:Phosphopyruvate Hydratase