[Thick-needle vacuum-assisted biopsy technique for inflammatory breast carcinoma diagnosis].
OBJECTIVE
Inflammatory breast carcinoma (IBC) is a rare clinicopathological cancer type with unique clinical features and a poor prognosis. In this disease, there is generally no palpable mass in the breast. IBC can be mistakenly diagnosed as mastitis and patients may receive a delayed diagnosis and treatment, since these two disorders cause similar pathological appearences on the breast. Clinical suspicion of the disease followed by histopathological observation of occluded dermal lympthatics by tumor emboli leads to definitive diagnosis of IBC.


METHODS
Here, we report our experiences in diagnosing IBC using Thick-Needle Aspiration Biopsy (TNAB).


RESULTS
Eight patients having clinically suspected IBC, received TNAB. IBC was definitively diagnosed upon observation in histopathological examination of occluded dermal lymphatics by tumor emboli since TNAB allowed adequate tissue sampling.


CONCLUSIONS
In this study, we showed that IBC can be reliably diagnosed using TNAB.
Kamer
Erdinc
E
Department of General Surgery, Izmir Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey. erdinc.kamer@gmail.com
Unalp
Haluk Recai
HR
Akguner
Taner
T
Yigit
Seyran
S
Peskersoy
Mustafa
M
Onal
Mehmet Ali
MA
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008413:Mastitis / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged