title: Breast carcinomas with choriocarcinomatous features: case reports and review of the literature.
abstract: Breast cancer with choriocarcinomatous features is rare. This report describes four cases of breast cancer with choriocarcinomatous features. The tumor cells were positive for human placental lactogen (hPL) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) by immunohistochemistry. The cases reported in the literature had a poor prognosis and the patients died within a few months after the diagnosis. In this series, two cases were lost to follow-up, but the other two have had disease-free survival for 2 and 4 years, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Ege University School of Medicine, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yildiz
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Erhan
authors.forename: Necmettin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ozdemir
authors.forename: Osman
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Zekioglu
authors.forename: Deniz
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nart
authors.forename: Metin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ciris
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D018270:Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002285:Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002822:Choriocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin / Q000032:analysis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008875:Middle Aged; D010928:Placental Lactogen / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin; D010928:Placental Lactogen