Rare chondrosarcoma of the breast treated with quadrantectomy instead of mastectomy: A case report

Breast chondrosarcoma is a rare sarcoma that mainly occurs in females >50 years old. To the best of our knowledge, only 16 cases were reported in the literature prior to 2013 and all patients were surgically treated by mastectomy, with or without lymphadenectomy, which was occasionally preceded b...

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Main Authors:	PASTA, VITTORIO, SOTTILE, DANIELA, URCIUOLI, PAOLO, DEL VECCHIO, LUCA, CUSTURERI, FILIPPO, D’ORAZI, VALERIO
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Language:	English
Published:	D.A. Spandidos 2015
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4315059/

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spelling	pubmed-43150592015-02-06 Rare chondrosarcoma of the breast treated with quadrantectomy instead of mastectomy: A case report PASTA, VITTORIO SOTTILE, DANIELA URCIUOLI, PAOLO DEL VECCHIO, LUCA CUSTURERI, FILIPPO D’ORAZI, VALERIO Articles Breast chondrosarcoma is a rare sarcoma that mainly occurs in females >50 years old. To the best of our knowledge, only 16 cases were reported in the literature prior to 2013 and all patients were surgically treated by mastectomy, with or without lymphadenectomy, which was occasionally preceded by neoadjuvant chemotherapy. However, the literature does not report the benefit of mastectomy compared with a more conservative surgery. The present study reports a novel case of extraskeletal chondrosarcoma of the breast. A 63-year-old female patient presented with a neoplasm localized in the upper-outer quadrant of the right breast. The palpable lesion with sharp margins was a firm parenchymatous mass, which was confirmed by ultrasonography and mammography. The patient underwent conservative quadrantectomy instead of mastectomy, followed by post-surgical chemotherapy. A positron emission tomography scan performed five months subsequent to the surgery revealed no remnants of the disease. The patient underwent a strict clinical and instrumental follow-up, and two and half years after surgery, there are no signs of recurrent disease. In conclusion, the present case is currently one of the two cases in which a more conservative quadrantectomy was performed, instead of mastectomy. This surgical approach did not lead to metastasis and resulted in a good follow-up for the patient. D.A. Spandidos 2015-03 2014-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4315059/ /pubmed/25663866 http://dx.doi.org/10.3892/ol.2014.2803 Text en Copyright © 2015, Spandidos Publications http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open-access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. The article may be redistributed, reproduced, and reused for non-commercial purposes, provided the original source is properly cited.
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author	PASTA, VITTORIO SOTTILE, DANIELA URCIUOLI, PAOLO DEL VECCHIO, LUCA CUSTURERI, FILIPPO D’ORAZI, VALERIO
spellingShingle	PASTA, VITTORIO SOTTILE, DANIELA URCIUOLI, PAOLO DEL VECCHIO, LUCA CUSTURERI, FILIPPO D’ORAZI, VALERIO Rare chondrosarcoma of the breast treated with quadrantectomy instead of mastectomy: A case report
author_facet	PASTA, VITTORIO SOTTILE, DANIELA URCIUOLI, PAOLO DEL VECCHIO, LUCA CUSTURERI, FILIPPO D’ORAZI, VALERIO
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title	Rare chondrosarcoma of the breast treated with quadrantectomy instead of mastectomy: A case report
title_short	Rare chondrosarcoma of the breast treated with quadrantectomy instead of mastectomy: A case report
title_full	Rare chondrosarcoma of the breast treated with quadrantectomy instead of mastectomy: A case report
title_fullStr	Rare chondrosarcoma of the breast treated with quadrantectomy instead of mastectomy: A case report
title_full_unstemmed	Rare chondrosarcoma of the breast treated with quadrantectomy instead of mastectomy: A case report
title_sort	rare chondrosarcoma of the breast treated with quadrantectomy instead of mastectomy: a case report
description	Breast chondrosarcoma is a rare sarcoma that mainly occurs in females >50 years old. To the best of our knowledge, only 16 cases were reported in the literature prior to 2013 and all patients were surgically treated by mastectomy, with or without lymphadenectomy, which was occasionally preceded by neoadjuvant chemotherapy. However, the literature does not report the benefit of mastectomy compared with a more conservative surgery. The present study reports a novel case of extraskeletal chondrosarcoma of the breast. A 63-year-old female patient presented with a neoplasm localized in the upper-outer quadrant of the right breast. The palpable lesion with sharp margins was a firm parenchymatous mass, which was confirmed by ultrasonography and mammography. The patient underwent conservative quadrantectomy instead of mastectomy, followed by post-surgical chemotherapy. A positron emission tomography scan performed five months subsequent to the surgery revealed no remnants of the disease. The patient underwent a strict clinical and instrumental follow-up, and two and half years after surgery, there are no signs of recurrent disease. In conclusion, the present case is currently one of the two cases in which a more conservative quadrantectomy was performed, instead of mastectomy. This surgical approach did not lead to metastasis and resulted in a good follow-up for the patient.
publisher	D.A. Spandidos
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Rare chondrosarcoma of the breast treated with quadrantectomy instead of mastectomy: A case report

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