Autoamputation of breast caused by invasive ductal carcinoma.

A 55-year-old woman presented with a 3-year history of deformation and decrease in size of the right breast accompanying with a discharge from the right nipple. The patient had taken no treatment during that time. In physical examination the right breast was seen as almost 90% decreased in size, the nipple was deviated medially and a significant deformation and retraction of the skin was observed (Fig. 1). The ultrasonography showed a hypoechoic solid area located between the nipple and the pectoral muscle reminding fibrosis and did not define a mass lesion. In the right axillary fossa there