Metachronous vulvar ectopic breast cancer, a case report and literature review

Hermineh Aramin; Pratistha Koirala; Abhishek Shah; Kendall Adams; Natalia Buza; Sapna Desai; Melissa Fairbairn; David Goldenberg; Wenli Gao; Linus Chuang; Ramapriya Vidhun; Vaagn Andikyan

doi:10.1016/j.gore.2019.100515

Metachronous vulvar ectopic breast cancer, a case report and literature review

Gynecol Oncol Rep. 2019 Nov 16:30:100515. doi: 10.1016/j.gore.2019.100515. eCollection 2019 Nov.

Authors

Hermineh Aramin¹, Pratistha Koirala², Abhishek Shah¹, Kendall Adams², Natalia Buza³, Sapna Desai¹, Melissa Fairbairn⁴, David Goldenberg⁵, Wenli Gao⁶, Linus Chuang^{2

4}, Ramapriya Vidhun¹, Vaagn Andikyan^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Danbury Hospital, Western Connecticut Health Network Danbury, CT, USA.
² Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Danbury Hospital, Western Connecticut Health Network Danbury, CT, USA.
³ Department of Pathology Yale School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA.
⁴ Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Danbury Hospital, Western Connecticut Health Network Danbury, CT, USA.
⁵ Department of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, Danbury Hospital, Western Connecticut Health Network Danbury, CT, USA.
⁶ Department of Oncology, Danbury Hospital, Western Connecticut Health Network Danbury, CT, USA.

Abstract

•When two or more primary tumors arise at the same time, they are considered synchronous.•A metachronous tumor in a new primary that develops after an initial cancer diagnosis.•The diagnosis of vulvar breast cancer is primarily histopathologic, based on morphology and immunostaining.•Identifying a cancer as a metastasis versus as synchronous/metachronous significantly impacts staging and treatment.

Keywords: Ectopic breast cancer; Metachronous cancer; Metastatic breast cancer; Vulvar cancer.

Publication types

Case Reports