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| Year : 2018 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 577-579 |
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Well-differentiated liposarcoma of the breast arising in a background of malignant phyllodes tumor in a pregnant woman: A rare case report and review of literature
Swetha Lakshmi Narla, Punitha Stephen, Ann Kurian, S Annapurneswari
Department of Histopathology, Apollo Cancer Institutes, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Correspondence Address:
Swetha Lakshmi Narla
Department of Histopathology, Apollo Cancer Institutes, 320, Anna Salai, Chennai - 600 035, Tamil Nadu
India
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DOI: 10.4103/IJPM.IJPM_238_17
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Pure mesenchymal sarcomas and phyllodes tumor with sarcomatous differentiation of the breast are rare tumors. Primary breast sarcomas are a heterogenous group of neoplasms which include malignant fibrous histiocytoma, fibrosarcoma, angiosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, osteosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, and liposarcoma. Sarcomatous differentiation in phyllodes tumor is seen in the form of angiosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, osteosarcoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, and liposarcoma. Here, we report a case of a 28-year-old pregnant woman with a breast lump during her second trimester which drastically increased in size in the postpartum period. Wide local excision revealed a malignant phyllodes tumor with liposarcomatous differentiation. Later, the patient underwent completion mastectomy which showed residual tumor.
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