Fine-needle aspiration of a metastatic breast carcinoma in the lung with melanin pigmentation: a case report.

Diagn Cytopathol

Department of Pathology, Booth Memorial Medical Center, New York University School of Medicine, Flushing 11355.

Published: April 1991

The presence of melanin pigment in the cytoplasm of breast carcinoma cells has been reported. Fine-needle aspiration of a solitary lung lesion in a woman who had undergone mastectomy for ductal carcinoma revealed malignant cells consistent with the primary mammary tumor; many of these tumor cells contained melanin pigment.

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