Sarcoidosis imitating breast cancer metastasis: a case report and literature review.
Sarcoidosis is a benign systematic granulomatous disorder of unknown etiology and is associated with various malignancies. However, granulomatous and metastatic lymph node lesions are difficult to distinguish even when using precise and modern diagnostic methods, such as positron emission tomography. Thus, histological verification is the only method that can be used to accurately describe the nature of this disease. In this article, we report a case of non-luminal HER-2/neu-positive breast cancer in a patient without history of sarcoidosis and suspected to have metastatic disease.
Department of Surgery No.2.
Teimuraz
T
Kochoyan
Department of Surgery No.2.
Mobil
M
Akhmedov
Department of Pathology, Russian Cancer Research Center, Moscow 115478, Russia.
Alexander
A
Shabanov
Department of Surgery No.2.
Ilya
I
Terekhov
Sarcoidosis; breast neoplasms; granulomatous; lymph node; metastasis