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| Year : 2012 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 630-632 |
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Squamous cell carcinoma of lung metastasizinig in breast
Sarbani Chattopadhyay1, Ranen Kanti Aich2, Amitava Sengupta3, Poonam Kumari1
1 Department of Pathology, N.R.S. Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2 Department of Radiotherapy, N.R.S. Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
3 Department of Chest Medicine, N.R.S. Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Correspondence Address:
Ranen Kanti Aich
Department of Radiotherapy, N R S Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata - 700 014, West Bengal
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.106582
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Metastasis in breast from extra-mammary malignancy is rare and lung is the third most common primary site when such a metastasis occurs. Small cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma are two histological varieties of lung carcinoma that may metastasize to breast and squamous cell type is very rare. Here we report a case of squamous cell carcinoma of lung that metastasized in the breast and mimicked primary breast carcinoma. |
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