title: Primary chondrosarcoma of the breast: a case report.
abstract: Mammary sarcomas are uncommon tumors. Of these pure chondrosarcoma without any other area of epithelial or mesenchymal differentiation feature as even rarer. This excludes tumors like malignant cystosarcoma phyllodes and metaplastic carcinoma where malignant cartilaginous areas may be present. Further primary chondrosarcoma arises from breast stroma and not from underlying bone or cartilage. Only five cases of pure and primary chondrosarcoma have been reported so far. The sixth case is reported here.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Maulana Azad Medical College & Associated LN Hospital, New Delhi-110 002, India.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: P N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Aggarwal
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kant
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Khurana
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Mandal
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged