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Pleomorphic Lobular Carcinoma Of The Male Breast With Axillary Lymph Node Involvement: A Case Report And Review Of Literature, Muhammad Nauman Zahir, Khurram Minhas, Munira Shabbir-Moosajee
Pleomorphic Lobular Carcinoma Of The Male Breast With Axillary Lymph Node Involvement: A Case Report And Review Of Literature, Muhammad Nauman Zahir, Khurram Minhas, Munira Shabbir-Moosajee
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Background: Carcinoma of the male breast is responsible for less than 1% of all malignancies in men but the incidence is rising. Invasive ductal carcinoma is the most common histological subtype while invasive lobular carcinoma is responsible for only 1.5% of the total cases of which pleomorpic lobular carcinoma is an extremely rare variant. We report the case of a gentleman with node positive, pleomorphic lobular carcinoma of the breast.
Case Presentation: An elderly gentleman with a past history of type 2 diabetes and long term ethanol use presented to us with a self-discovered palpable lump in the left breast. …