PMID: 22360038Mar 1, 2012Paper

Axillary ectopic carcinoma of breast

JPMA. the Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Muhammad Shamim, Naveed Baddar

Abstract

Carcinoma in ectopic breast tissue is rare. This is a case report of a 70-year-old postmenopausal female, who presented with a painless mass in right axilla, diagnosed as invasive ductal carcinoma of ectopic breast tissue an excisional biopsy. Postoperatively she was put on tamoxifen, and remained well 10 months after surgery.

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