[Diagnostic image (392). A woman with redness and swelling of the breast].
A 40-year-old woman presented with progressive swelling and red to purple discoloration of the left mamma. A mammary carcinoma had been radically removed two years before. Skin biopsy showed diffuse intralymphatic malignant cells consistent with inflammatory breast cancer.
Hagendoorn
J
J
St. Antonius Ziekenhuis, afd. Algemene Chirurgie, Postbus 2500, 3430 EM Nieuwegein.
Koelemij
R
R
D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000532:radiotherapy; D008413:Mastitis; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis