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Unknown: A woman with reddish nodule on the skin of the breast
Jose Aneiros-Fernandez MD¹, Salvador Arias-Santiago MD², Ricardo Sotillo MD¹, Salomon Menjon-Beltran MD³, Angel Concha MD PhD¹
Dermatology Online Journal 17 (2): 11

1. Department of Pathology, University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain. janeirosf@hotmail.com
2. Department of Dermatology, University Hospital, Granada, Spain
3. Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada. Spain

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Case synopsis

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Figure 1. Showed a lesion exophytic, lobed, ulcerated and bleeding at the touch Figures 2 and 3. Histologic sections Figure 4. Immunohistochemical staining (A) CD31 and (B) D2-40

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A 54-year-old woman presented a peri-areolar nodule located in the skin of the right breast. Clinical examination showed a 6 x 5 cm exophytic, lobed, ulcerated, and bleeding nodule (Figure 1). The patient reported that the tumor had grown gradually over a period of 3 months. The patient had been diagnosed 8 years prior to presentation with infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the right breast (pT2NO). This tumor was treated with partial mastectomy (conservative surgery) and lymph node dissection, then subsequently received 30 tangent field radiotherapy sessions to the breast for a total dose of 45 Gy. The rest of her cutaneous exam was normal. There was no family history of any similar tumor. Histological sections are show in Figures 2, 3, and 4.

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