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Revista del Nacional (Itauguá)
Print version ISSN 2072-8174
Abstract
GOMEZ VERA, Cecilia María Luján; LEZCANO ARIAS, Elva Magdalena; AQUINO QUINONEZ, Gilberto Nicolás and SANABRIA ZUZULICH, Valeria. Male breast cancer. Rev. Nac. (Itauguá) [online]. 2019, vol.11, n.2, pp.109-113. ISSN 2072-8174. https://doi.org/10.18004/rdn2019.0011.02.109-113.
Breast cancer in men is an uncommon pathology, representing less than 1 % of diagnosed breast cancers, so the available scientific information is limited to isolated cases. We present the case of a 53-year-old patient who comes to a consultation for a tumor in the left breast of 2 years of evolution, not painful, that reaches 6 cm. The requested imaging studies report that it is a complex cyst. Due to the high suspicion of being a malignant neoplastic pathology, a mastectomy is performed whose pathological anatomy confirms a 65 mm intracystic carcinoma with a 4mm infiltrating component. In lymph node emptying, no metastases are identified. In the literature the infiltrating ductal carcinoma is cited as the most representative subtype. The same diagnostic and therapeutic criteria as in female breast pathology are followed.
Keywords : breast cancer; male..