RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Sarcoidosis imitating breast cancer metastasis: a case report and literature review
JF Cancer Biology and Medicine
JO Cancer Biol Med
FD China Anti-Cancer Association
SP 396
OP 398
DO 10.20892/j.issn.2095-3941.2016.0038
VO 13
IS 3
A1 Kochoyan, Teimuraz
A1 Akhmedov, Mobil
A1 Shabanov, Alexander
A1 Terekhov, Ilya
YR 2016
UL http://www.cancerbiomed.org/content/13/3/396.abstract
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.