Breast lumps: rare presentation of oat cell carcinoma of lung.
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Breast lumps: rare presentation of oat cell carcinoma of lung.
Two cases of oat cell carcinoma are described. Both patients presented initially with a lump in the breast. A review of the published reports on breast metastases as a presenting feature of malignant disease was performed and lung cancer was found to be the commonest extramammary tumour to present as a breast mass (80% of cases) and usually as small cell carcinoma.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.41.2.171