Primary neuroendocrine tumor of the breast

Authors: Yalçin, ŞuayİB¹; Zengİn, Nurullah¹; Tekuzman, Gülten¹; Küçükalİ, Türkan²

Source: Medical Oncology, Volume 14, Number 2, June 1997 , pp. 121-123(3)

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Abstract:

Adult neuroendocrine tumors may present with a wide range of clinical symptoms that share specific ultrastructural and biochemical features. A 63-year-old post-menopausal female patient was admitted to the hospital with a mass in her right breast and the diagnosis was primary neuroendocrine tumor of the breast. Although neuroendocrine tumors can originate in various parts of the body and breast carcinoma with neuroendocrine differentiation has been described, primary neuroendocrine tumor of the breast is very unusual. This case is now presented and the current literature is reviewed.

Keywords: neuroendocrine tumor; primary; breast

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02990956

Affiliations: 1: Institute of Oncology, Medical Oncology Department, Hacettepe University, 06100, Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey, 2: Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey,

Publication date: 1997-06-01