title: Pulmonary metastases 12 years after a mastectomy for borderline phyllodes tumor.
abstract: Phyllodes tumor is a rare breast tumor. A 45-year-old woman who underwent left mastectomy 12 years ago was found to have infiltrates in both lungs in a health examination. Combining histological examinations of the lung and breast samples, the diagnosis of borderline phyllodes tumor metastases to the lung was made. It is the longest interval to our knowledge that the metastases occurred 12 years after primary phyllodes tumor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Diseases, Changhai Hospital, the Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Meng
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Nie
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiao-Peng
authors.initials: XP
authors.lastname: Yao
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D008875:Middle Aged; D003557:Phyllodes Tumor / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary