Thick-needle vacuum-assisted biopsy technique for inflammatory breast carcinoma diagnosis Técnica de biópsia aspirativa por agulha de grosso calibre para o diagnóstico do carcinoma inflamatório da mama
- Erdinc Kamer
- Haluk Recai Unalp
- Taner Akguner
- Seyran Yigit
- Mustafa Peskersoy
- Mehmet Ali Onal
DOIAbstract
PURPOSE: Inflammatory breast carcinoma (IBC) is a rare clinicopathological cancer type with unique clinical features and a poor prognosis. In this disease, there is generally no palpable mass in the breast. IBC can be mistakenly diagnosed as mastitis and patients may receive a delayed diagnosis and treatment, since these two disorders cause similar pathological appearences on the breast. Clinical suspicion of the disease followed by histopathological observation of occluded dermal lympthatics by tumor emboli leads to definitive diagnosis of IBC. METHODS: Here, we report our experiences in diagnosing IBC using Thick-Needle Aspiration Biopsy (TNAB). RESULTS: Eight patients having clinically suspected IBC, received TNAB. IBC was definitively d...