Squamous cell carcinoma of the breast. Report of two cases.
Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) of the breast is a rare entity, not well known, nevertheless literature reports several signalings from different authors. Regarding ethiopathogenesis, SCC of the breast is still the object of numerous discordances and controversies. We report two cases of SCC of the breast referred to our institution in the last year. The first case interests a 35 years-old woman with a lesion of the left breast referred to us with a 3 month history of breast mass. The second case regards a 49 year-old women with multicentric lesions of the right breast operated in two different times. The SCC is a rare breast entity with a controversial histogenesis. The development is characterized by metastasis frequency. The treatment remains not codified. The treatment is currently the same as for infiltrating ductal carcinoma. Indeed, the limited number of this kind of tumor doesn't allow the assessment of different therapeutic protocols.
Department of Surgery, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy.
Antonio
A
Manzelli
Piero
P
Rossi
Adriano
A
De Maio
Elena
E
Bonano
Serena
S
Battista
Livia
L
Cenci
Valeria
V
Tognoni
Achille Lucio
AL
Gaspari
D000328:Adult; D001365:Axilla; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D015413:Mastectomy, Simple; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome