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Forum of Clinical Oncology
Volume 13 (2022): Issue 1 (December 2022)
Open Access
A Rare Case of Primary Carcinosarcoma of the Breast
Maria Kiakou
Maria Kiakou
,
Maria Tolia
Maria Tolia
,
Nektarios Koufopoulos
Nektarios Koufopoulos
,
Konstantinos Tsapakidis
Konstantinos Tsapakidis
,
Eleni Arvanitou
Eleni Arvanitou
,
Gkikas Konstantinos
Gkikas Konstantinos
,
Nikolaos Charalambakis
Nikolaos Charalambakis
,
Michalis Nikolaou
Michalis Nikolaou
,
Dimitrios Matthaios
Dimitrios Matthaios
and
Nikolaos Tsoukalas
Nikolaos Tsoukalas
| Mar 27, 2023
Forum of Clinical Oncology
Volume 13 (2022): Issue 1 (December 2022)
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Article Category:
Case report
Published Online:
Mar 27, 2023
Page range:
48 - 52
Received:
Jul 14, 2022
Accepted:
Dec 22, 2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2478/fco-2022-0006
Keywords
breast cancer
,
carcinosarcoma
,
triple-negative
,
biphasic differentiation
,
rare histology
,
poor prognosis
© 2023 Maria Kiakou et al., published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Figure 1
On low power examination the tumor shows a biphasic pattern consisting of epithelial and sarcomatoid elements (Fig. 1, H&E x 4).
Figure 2
On higher power examination the epithelial component displays high-grade atypia (Fig. 2, H&E x 20).
Figure 3
On higher power examination the sarcomatoid component consists of a proliferation of high-grade pleomorphic spindle cells (Fig. 3, H&E x 20).