title: Pure invasive micropapillary carcinoma of the male breast: report of a rare case with C-MYC amplification.
abstract: Male breast cancer is rare. The most common histological subtypes include invasive carcinoma "of no special type" and papillary carcinoma. Other variants, including pure micropapillary carcinoma, have been described as well but are extremely rare. Pure micropapillary carcinoma has been recently characterized by a C-MYC gene amplification in women. We report here, occurring in a 73-year-old man, the first case of pure micropapillary carcinoma with amplification of the C-MYC gene.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: atrepant@ulb.ac.be.
authors.forename: Anne-Laure
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Trépant
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Universitair Ziekenhuis, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hoorens
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Jean-Christophe
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Noël
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018567:Breast Neoplasms, Male / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D005784:Gene Amplification; D015972:Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic / Q000235:genetics*; D016259:Genes, myc / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009375:Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: Breast; C-MYC amplification; Male; Micropapillary carcinoma