A 40-year delayed locoregional recurrence of breast carcinoma following mastectomy. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A 90-year-old woman who underwent a left modified radical mastectomy 40 years ago with no further adjuvant treatment presented with a left chest wall mass at the suture line. A biopsy of the mass confirmed that it was invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast. After a negative metastatic work-up, the patient underwent a local resection of the chest wall mass with clear margins. We present here the longest documented delayed recurrence after modified radical mastectomy reported in the literature.

publication date

  • November 1, 2003

Research

keywords

  • Breast Neoplasms
  • Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast
  • Mastectomy, Modified Radical
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0642369214

PubMed ID

  • 14627268

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 69

issue

  • 11