Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Primary lymphoma of the breast involving both axillae with bilateral breast carcinoma | World Journal of Surgical Oncology BioMed Central Case report Open Access Primary lymphoma of the breast involving both axillae with bilateral breast carcinoma Neeraj K Garg1 Nitin B Bagul 2 Gary Rubin3 and Elizabeth F Shah1 Address Department of Surgery Conquest Hospital UK 2Department of Surgery University Hospital of North Tees UK and 3Department of Radiology Royal Sussex County Hospital UK Email NeerajK Garg - nkgarg99@ Nitin B Bagul - drnitinbb@ Gary Rubin - Elizabeth F Shah - Corresponding author Published 20 May 2008 Received 2 December 2007 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6 52 doi 1477-7819-6-52 Accepted 20 May 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 52 2008 Garg et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Primary Non-Hodgkin s Lymphoma PHNL of the breast is a rare entity while secondary involvement of the breast with diffuse disease of Non-Hodgkin s lymphoma NHL is more common. However PNHL is the most frequent haematopoietic tumour of the breast. Diagnostic criteria for PNHL of the breast are presence of technically adequate pathologic specimens close association of mammary tissue and lymphomatous infiltrate no prior diagnosis of an extarammamary lymphoma and no evidence of concurrent widespread disease except for ipsilateral axillary lymph nodes if concomitant with the primary lesion. Case presentation A 57-year-old woman was recalled because her screening mammograms revealed three separate lesions in her right breast and one in the left. Histology of the lesions confirmed lymphoma in one breast with ductal carcinoma in the other. Conclusion Most of reported cases in .