J Korean Surg Soc.
2005 Apr;68(4):332-334.
The Breast Adenomyoepithelioma
- Affiliations
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- 1Breast Center, Department of Surgery, Kang-Nam St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea. bjsong@catholic.ac.kr
Abstract
- Adenomyoepithelioma occurs often in the salivary gland. But adenomyoepithelioma of the breast is very rare, and diagnostic tools are not found. The biological characters of disease are not fully understood. These days, a few case was reported in Korea with development of pathologic diagnostic tools. At first, we diagnosed this case as breast cancer and did MRM operation. But this case was diagnosed as adenomyoepithelioma at the special immunohistochemistry stain. Most of the adenomyoepithelioma is benign disease, but this case was malignant change. We experienced one case of malignant adenomyoepithelioma of the breast and report the case with review of literatures.
