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Lymphosarcoma of the Breast: A case report


DM Brebner
JJ Rippey

Abstract

Lymphoma of the female breast is rarely a primary lesion. It may be found without manifestations of the disease elsewhere in the body. The types include the reticular cell, the histiocytic, the mixed and the follicular type of lesion. Usually the disease disseminates to the other parts of the body, but should it be confined to the breast and be successfully treated, it will not develop elsewhere. Clinically, radiologically and pathologically these lesions may be misdiagnosed as carcinoma. Irradiation is the treatment of choice for lymphosarcoma and therefore mastectomy is not generally recommended and may even be contra-indicated.

S. Afr. Med. J., 48, 449 (1974)

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