Giant cell arteritis of the breast and breast cancer: Paraneoplastic manifestation or concomitant disease? A case report

Onkologie

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 685-688

  Kafantari, Eftychia ^a   Sotiropoulou, Maria ^a   Sfikakis, Petros ^a   Dimitrakakis, Konstantinos ^a   Zagouri, Flora ^a   Mandrekas, Konstantinos ^a   Dimopoulos, Stavros ^a   Dimopoulos, Meletios A ^a   Papadimitriou, Christos A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Giant cell arteritis of the breast; Invasive ductal carcinoma

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST DISEASE; BREAST TENDERNESS; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAISE; PALPATION; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HUMANS; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROMES;

EID: 57449101863     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000165055     Document Type: Article

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