Journals / The anatolian journal of family medicine (Online) / 2019 / Cilt: 2 - Sayı: 3

Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Breast with Unusual Metastasis

Pages
134–136
DOI
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Özet

Primary leiomyosarcomas of the breast are extremely rare tumors, with unpredictable biological behavior.The main treatment consists of wide resection or mastectomy. Local recurrence is late; the distant metastasisspreads via the hematogenous route to lungs and liver; however, bone metastasis is rarely reported. Here, wepresent a case of primary leiomyosarcoma of the breast, diagnosed in the postmenopausal female. She underwent a wide resection with free margins. The patient rapidly, presented an unusual aggressive behavior ofleiomyosarcoma, with a local recurrence in axillary lymph node and an exceptional distant metastasis in bones.