A CASE OF ACCESSORY BREAST CANCER IN THE LEFT AXILLARY REGION

Abstract

Our uncommon experience with a case of accessory breast cancer is described. A 67-year-old woman was seen at the hospital because of a left axillary tumor. An excisional biopsy of the tumor revealed medullary carcinoma with mammary gland, without connection to the proper mammary gland. There was no other primary lesion in general exploration and clinical findings also offered a suspicion of accessory breast cancer. A wide local resection with lymph nodes dissection level III was carried out. She is doing well without any evidence of recurrence, as of 10 months after the operation.