Aspiration biopsy in a case of apocrine adenocarcinoma with foam cells (myoblastomatoid or histiocytoid adenocarcinoma)

Joan Cangiarella; Elizabeth O'Connell Mazzei; Noah Weg; Anjali Limaye; Jerry Waisman

doi:10.1002/dc.10103

Aspiration biopsy in a case of apocrine adenocarcinoma with foam cells (myoblastomatoid or histiocytoid adenocarcinoma)

Diagn Cytopathol. 2002 May;26(5):320-3. doi: 10.1002/dc.10103.

Authors

Joan Cangiarella¹, Elizabeth O'Connell Mazzei, Noah Weg, Anjali Limaye, Jerry Waisman

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pathology, New York University Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, Skirball West Tower, Suite 7S, New York, NY 10016, USA. joan.cangiarella@med.nyu.edu

PMID: 11992376
DOI: 10.1002/dc.10103

Abstract

We found only one report of a case of apocrine adenocarcinoma with foamy cells diagnosed by aspiration biopsy. Herein, we describe a second case with cytologic, histologic, and immunohistochemical findings and discuss the differential diagnosis of foamy cells on aspiration smears obtained from mammary nodules.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adenocarcinoma / pathology*
Apocrine Glands / pathology*
Biopsy, Needle
Breast Neoplasms / pathology*
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Foam Cells / pathology*
Humans
Immunohistochemistry
Middle Aged
Sweat Gland Neoplasms / pathology*