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Breast Erythema and Induration in a 77-Year-Old Woman—Quiz Case
Denise K. Woo, MD;
George D. Reilly, MD;
Rosalie Elenitsas, MD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia (Drs Woo and Elenitsas); Dr Reilly is in private practice, Warren, NJ
Arch Dermatol. 2006;142:101-106.
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REPORT OF A CASE
A 77-year-old woman presented with a 10-month history of nontender, nonprogressive erythema and induration of the left breast that she had first noticed 4 months after she had completed a course of radiotherapy following a lumpectomy and chemotherapy for a 3-cm, poorly differentiated, infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the left breast. The tumor was found to be stage IIB, with 2 axillary sentinel nodes that were positive for metastases, which had been identified only on immunohistochemical analysis. There was no evidence of systemic metastases.
The tumor was estrogen receptor negative and progesterone receptor positive. The patient received 4 cycles of doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide, followed by a course of external beam irradiation to the tumor bed (4678 rad [46.8 Gy] in 26 fractions over 37 days, followed by a 1400-rad [14.0-Gy] boost in 7 fractions over 13 days). She had no . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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