title: Primary breast mucormycosis: FNAC diagnosis of a rare entity.
abstract: Mucormycosis is the common name given to several different diseases caused by fungi in the order of mucorales. The clinical hallmark of these opportunistic pathogens in invasive mucormycosis is tissue necrosis resulting from angioinvasion and subsequent thrombosis. Rarely the disease may affect immunocompetent individuals. In addition, the breast involvement in this disease is very rare. Herein, we describe a case of primary breast mucormycosis diagnosed on fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), in an immunocompetent young female, which is extremely rare. Diagn. Cytopathol. 2016;44:761-763. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
authors.forename: Sant Prakash
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Kataria
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
authors.forename: Jyoti
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
authors.forename: Gajender
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
authors.forename: Sanjay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
authors.forename: Shivani
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Malik
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
authors.forename: Vinod
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kumar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D001940:Breast / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: FNAC; breast; immunocompetent; mucormycosis