Bilateral multiple axillary apocrine hidrocystomas associated with benign apocrine hyperplasia
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Axillary apocrine carcinoma associated with apocrine adenoma and apocrine gland hyperplasia.
Apocrine carcinomas represent a rare group of tumors with a potential for destructive local invasion, regional and distant metastases, and are equally common in both sexes. A case of a 79-year-old woman with axillary apocrine carcinoma associated with apocrine adenoma and apocrine gland hyperplasia is presented. To our knowledge, this is the first case diagnosed in a Caucasian and also the firs...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2005.033670