Primary Angiosarcoma of the Breast: An Uncommon Histopathological Subtype.

J Clin Diagn Res

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, University, Karad, Maharashtra, India .

Published: December 2015

Primary angiosarcoma of the breast is extremely rare malignant tumour of the breast. The cytological and radiological findings are often non specific for diagnosis. Histopathology plays an important role in diagnosis and grading of tumour. Herewith we present a case of 55-year-old postmenopausal woman having history of rapidly enlarging right breast lump with prominent vascularity and associated bluish discolouration of overlying skin. Mammography shows ill defined mass lesion. Fine needle aspiration cytology was done which showed haemorrhagic aspirate with few clusters of highly pleomorphic neoplastic cells. Patient underwent modified radical mastectomy. On histopathological evaluation it showed primary angiosarcoma of the breast, poorly differentiated, grade-III. We are presenting this extremely rare malignancy of breast for its clinical, cytological and histopathological findings.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4717706PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2015/15855.6885DOI Listing

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