Fine-needle Aspiration Cytology to Identify a Rare Mimicker of Breast Cancer: Plasma Cell Mastitis.

There are rare benign diseases that can mimic malignant breast neoplasms in the clinical exam and in mammography. We evaluated the contribution of an accessible procedure to most clinicians, the fine-needle aspiration cytology, to identify a rare mimicker of malignant breast neoplasms. A type 2 diabetic 85-year-old female presented with a 6-month history of a left breast lump.

[Pelvic lymph node retrieval in cervical cancer].

Background: retrieve the largest number of lymph nodes provides information to know the patient prognosis with invasive cervical cancer undergoing radical hysterectomy. The aim was to evaluate the skill of the attending surgeon to identify and recover lymph nodes.

Methods: pelvic lymphadenectomy specimens obtained from patients with cervical cancer stages IA2-IIA undergoing radical hysterectomy were studied.

[Pyometra as a complication of invasive endocervical cancer].

We present a case of pyometra due to cervical cancer in a 62 years-old female with purulent discharge, abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding. At the examination we found the cervix with a cupula form, an ulcer in the external orifice, and normal vaginal fornixes and parametria. During an attempt of edometrial biopsy we noticed the output of 150 mL of pus from the uterine cavity.