PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Teimuraz Kochoyan
AU  - Mobil Akhmedov
AU  - Alexander Shabanov
AU  - Ilya Terekhov
TI  - Sarcoidosis imitating breast cancer metastasis: a case report and literature review
AID  - 10.20892/j.issn.2095-3941.2016.0038
DP  - 2016 Sep 01
TA  - Cancer Biology and Medicine
PG  - 396--398
VI  - 13
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.cancerbiomed.org/content/13/3/396.short
4100  - http://www.cancerbiomed.org/content/13/3/396.full
SO  - Cancer Biol Med2016 Sep 01; 13
AB  - Sarcoidosis is a benign systematic granulomatous disorder of unknown etiology and is associated with various malignancies. However, granulomatous and metastatic lymph node lesions are difficult to distinguish even when using precise and modern diagnostic methods, such as positron emission tomography. Thus, histological verification is the only method that can be used to accurately describe the nature of this disease. In this article, we report a case of non-luminal HER-2/neu-positive breast cancer in a patient without history of sarcoidosis and suspected to have metastatic disease.