Cystosarcoma phylloides of the breast: a rare diagnosis. A case report and review of the literature.

Sarcoma of the breast is a rare condition, with one possible meaning of relapse ad metastastasize, and behaves biologically as a stromal tumor. Surgery is the first choise and mastectomy is the best procedure adopted in these tumors. The aim of our study was to assess diagnostic and treatment options for PT, based on a review of the literature and our experience with a case of breast sarcoma arising from a phyllodes tumor.

[Ectopic breast tissue and a carcinoma in atypical positions]. / Ectopie mammarie e carcinomi in sede atipica.

AIM: The aim of the study was to considerate neoplams of ectopic breast tissue in particular concerning the diagnostic and surgical related problems, analysing our experience in this extremely rare pathology. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A group of five women affected by neoplasm of ectopic breast tissuehave been examinated, four of them in axillary breast tissue and the other one in parasternal area. They came to our clinical observation (UOC BCG 21, UOC BCG 27-Policlinico Umberto I,-Università "Sapienza" di Roma) between 2006 and 2008. All the patient underwent surgical intervention in our department. DISCUSSION: According to the literature we can assess that this is a rare pathology and so the diagnostic and surgical choices are different from case to case depending on the size, the localization , the local invasion. CONCLUSIONS: This rare pathology can occur in many different forms and areas. This fact makes impossible to create a guideline of diagnosis and treatment. This one must be acted in respect of radicality and when it is possible, of aesthetic criteria.