title: [Malignant myoepithelial breast carcinoma: diagnosis and therapeutic difficulties].
abstract: Myoepithelial carcinoma of the breast is a rare and malignant tumor. Local recurrence and distant metastasis are common. Treatment is not consensual. Here, we report a case of a 61-year-old female who developed a myoepithelial carcinoma. Primary treatment was a local wide excision with clear pathological margins. Three years later, a local recurrence was treated by further wide excision. Neither recurrences nor distant metastasis were detected four years later. Regular following of patients with myoepithelial carcinoma is essential.
authors.affiliation: Service de gynécologie, centre Olympe-de-Gouges, CHU de Bretonneau, 2 boulevard Tonnelé, Tours, France.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Poret
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cormier
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Marret
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Body
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ouldamer
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009208:Myoepithelioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D010173:Palpation