Incidence of inflammatory breast cancer in patients with clinical inflammatory breast symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To describe a large cohort of women with non-puerperal inflammatory breast and to identify characteristics of inflammatory breast cancer.

Methods

All patients consulting for inflammatory breast syndrome in the breast unit of our tertiary University hospital between September 2013 and December 2015 were prospectively included. We excluded women who were pregnant or in the postpartum period. Patients underwent systematic clinical examination and imaging (breast ultrasonography and mammography). A biopsy was performed if the clinician suspected a malignant lesion of the breast. Clinicopathologic and radiologic data were registered. Statistics were performed using R (3.0.2 version) software.

Results

Among the 76 patients screened and included, 38 (50%) had a ma

SUBMITTER: Dabi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5738061 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature