A spectrum of coexistent tuberculosis and carcinoma in the breast and axillary lymph nodes: Report of five cases

Breast

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 436-438

  Tulasi, N R ^a   Raju, P C ^a   Damodaran, V ^a   Radhika, T S ^a  

^a G KUPPUSWAMY NAIDU MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Axillary lymphadenopathy; Breast cancer; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; TAMOXIFEN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MASTECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; CASE REPORT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

EID: 33744541511     PISSN: 09609776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2005.07.008     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Miller R.E., Salomon P.F., and West J.P. Coexistence of carcinoma and tuberculosis of the breast and axillary lymph nodes. Am J Surg 121 (1971) 338-340
2. Kaplan M.H., Armstrong D., and Rosen P. Tuberculosis complicating neoplastic disease: a review of 201 cases. Cancer 33 (1974) 850-858
3. Das D.K., Mohil R.S., Kashyap V., Khan I.U., Mandal A.K., and Gulati S.M. Colloid carcinoma of the breast with concomitant metastasis and a tuberculous lesion in the axillary lymph nodes. Acta Cytol 36 (1992) 399-403
4. Balasubramanian S.P., Rao M.P., Jayaram S., and Bose S.M. Coexistent mammary tuberculosis and malignant disease. Can J Surg 44 (2001) 224-225
5. Pandey M., Abraham E.K., Chandramohan K., and Rajan B. Tuberculosis and metastatic carcinoma coexistence in the axillary lymph node: a case report. World J Surg Oncol 1 1 (2003) 3