1. Primary breast mucormycosis: FNAC diagnosis of a rare entity
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Sant Prakash Kataria, Jyoti Sharma, Gajender Singh, Vinod Kumar, Shivani Malik, and Sanjay Kumar
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Mucorales ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Angioinvasion ,Histology ,biology ,business.industry ,030231 tropical medicine ,Mucormycosis ,Rare entity ,General Medicine ,Disease ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Thrombosis ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Tissue necrosis ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Young female ,business - Abstract
Mucormycosis is the common name given to several different diseases caused by fungi in the order of mucorales. The clinical hallmark of these opportunistic pathogens in invasive mucormycosis is tissue necrosis resulting from angioinvasion and subsequent thrombosis. Rarely the disease may affect immunocompetent individuals. In addition, the breast involvement in this disease is very rare. Herein, we describe a case of primary breast mucormycosis diagnosed on fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), in an immunocompetent young female, which is extremely rare. Diagn. Cytopathol. 2016;44:761-763. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- 2016