title: Primary breast lymphoma with sudden death.
abstract: Primary breast lymphoma is a rare form of extranodal lymphoma. B cells constitute the most common type involving the breast. T cells represents only 3%. Even though lymphomas have a high predilection to metastasize to the heart, there are no specific clinical or radiological findings, and most of the cases are diagnosed at autopsy. We discuss the case of a 49-year-old woman with primary breast lymphoma who presented with sudden death. Autopsy revealed a primary T-cell lymphoma of the breast with tumoral infiltration of the atrioventricular node and transmural myocardial permeation with focal necrosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. luisa.florez@ifs.hctx.net
authors.forename: Luisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Florez
authors.forename: Carolina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gutierrez
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Haden-Pinneri
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cervantes
authors.forename: Maximilian
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Buja
authors.forename: Mary L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Anzalone
authors.forename: Luis A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Sanchez
mesh_terms: D001283:Atrioventricular Node / Q000473:pathology*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D016399:Lymphoma, T-Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D009336:Necrosis; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness