Malignant hemangiopericytoma of the breast: a case report with a review of the literature.
BACKGROUND
A hemangiopericytoma of the breast is uncommon, and a hemangiopericytoma of the breast is even rarer. Only a few cases of hemangiopericytoma of the breast have been reported in literature.


METHODS
Here, we report a case of a 66-year-old woman who presented with a mass in her left breast. The patient had trauma to her left breast 2 years ago with consecutive hematoma. An ultrasound-guided core biopsy indicated a malignant vascular tumor. Its morphology and immunohistochemical marker profile was characteristic for a malignant hemangiopericytoma. Thus, she underwent a mastectomy and an axilla sampling.


CONCLUSIONS
The mammogram and the ultrasound findings of 2004 are presented in relation to those of 2006. Hemangiopericytoma of the breast is infrequent, so that the characteristics of this lesion are discussed in addition to the review of the previous literature on this unusual neoplasm.
Buecker
Britta
B
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Luebeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538, Luebeck, Germany. britta.buecker@uk-sh.de
Kapsimalakou
Smaragda
S
Stoeckelhuber
Beate M
BM
Bos
Ingeborg
I
Wulf-Brodnjak
Susanne
S
Fischer
Dorothea
D
D000368:Aged; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006393:Hemangiopericytoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008408:Mastectomy; D014463:Ultrasonography