Importance of revealing a rare case of breast cancer in a female to male transsexual after bilateral mastectomy

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Nikolic, Dejan V ^a,b,e   Djordjevic, Miroslav L ^a   Granic, Miroslav ^a,b   Nikolic, Aleksandra T ^a,c   Stanimirovic, Violeta V ^d   Zdravkovic, Darko ^a,b   Jelic, Svetlana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b University Medical Center Bezanijska Kosa   (Serbia)

^c Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute   (Serbia)

^d Medicines and Medical Devices Agency of Serbia   (Serbia)

^e Medical Center Bezanijska Kosa   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Female to male surgery; Mastectomy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PACLITAXEL; TESTOSTERONE; TRASTUZUMAB;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSSEXUAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MASTECTOMY; MENOPAUSE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SEX TRANSFORMATION; TESTIS PROSTHESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS, MALE; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MASTECTOMY, SUBCUTANEOUS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NIPPLES; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 84872819613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-10-280     Document Type: Article

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