Korean J Radiol.  2015 Oct;16(5):1006-1011. 10.3348/kjr.2015.16.5.1006.

Sonography of Invasive Apocrine Carcinoma of the Breast in Five Cases

• Seo KJ
• An YY
• Whang IY
• Chang ED
• Kang BJ
• Kim SH
• Park CS
• Kim JS
• Hong H

• KMID: 2160767
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2015.16.5.1006

Abstract

OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the sonographic features of invasive apocrine carcinoma (IAC) of the breast.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
This study included five pathologically proven cases of IAC, and their sonographic features were retrospectively analyzed according to the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) lexicon.
RESULTS
All five lesions involved the left breast and were seen as irregularly shaped masses. All lesions, except one, had a parallel orientation to the chest wall. All five lesions showed noncircumscribed margins and heterogeneous echotexture; however, they showed various posterior features. One lesion had edema as an associated feature. Sonographic assessments were classified as BI-RADS category 4 in all five cases.
CONCLUSION
Invasive apocrine carcinoma sonographic findings are difficult to differentiate from those of invasive ductal carcinoma of no special type.

Keyword

Breast; Sonography; Invasive apocrine carcinoma

MeSH Terms

Aged
Apocrine Glands/pathology/ultrasonography
Breast Neoplasms/*diagnosis/pathology/ultrasonography
Carcinoma/*diagnosis/pathology/ultrasonography
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Neoplasm Invasiveness
Positron-Emission Tomography
Receptor, ErbB-2/metabolism
Receptors, Estrogen/metabolism
Receptors, Progesterone/metabolism
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/metabolism
Receptor, ErbB-2
Receptors, Estrogen
Receptors, Progesterone
Tumor Suppressor Protein p53