title: Case Report: Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the breast with unusual metastasis to the femur.
abstract: With less than 40 cases reported, primary leiomyosarcoma is an extremely rare form of breast cancer (less than 0.0006% of cases) with unpredictable biological behavior that usually presents as a slow growing, mobile mass in middle age women. Most cases are low-grade and are cured by complete excision with wide margins. After surgical resection, late local recurrence and distant hematogenous metastasis to lungs and liver is, however, well-documented. To the best of our knowledge, bone metastasis has never been reported. Here we present a case of primary leiomyosarcoma of the breast metastatic to the femur.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, USA.
authors.forename: Evgeniya
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sokolovskaya
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, USA.
authors.forename: Zheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, USA.
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Weintraub
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, USA.
authors.forename: Arpad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Szallasi
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, USA.
authors.forename: Yasmeen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shariff