Fine-needle aspiration diagnosis of plasmacytoma presenting as breast masses in a patient on estrogen therapy for prostate cancer.

Abstract

We describe a 79-yr-old man with a history of androgen-independent metastatic prostate cancer treated with exogenous estrogens presenting with bilateral breast masses associated with bilateral axillary lymphadenopathy. Although the findings on physical examination with the concomitant history of estrogen therapy for metastatic prostate cancer raised the clinical suspicion of breast cancer, fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology identified the lesions as multiple myeloma.

• Authors: John T Vetto, Tomasz M Beer, Nisreen Fidda, Bruce Ham, Ricardo Jimenez-Lee, Waldemar Schmidt
• Journal: Diagnostic cytopathology (Diagn Cytopathol) Vol. 31 Issue 6 Pg. 417-9 (Dec 2004) ISSN: 8755-1039 [Print] United States
• PMID: 15540181 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)
• Copyright: copyright (c) 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Chemical References

• Estrogens

Topics

• Aged
• Biopsy, Fine-Needle
• Breast Neoplasms, Male (etiology, pathology)
• Estrogens (adverse effects, therapeutic use)
• Humans
• Male
• Plasmacytoma (etiology, pathology)
• Prostatic Neoplasms (complications, drug therapy)