CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 31, 281-283, Copyright
© 1981 by American Cancer Society
Implantation of Breast Cancer in a Transplanted Nipple: A Plea for Preoperative Screening
Robert L. Cucin M.D.1 and
James P. Gaston M.D.2
1 Assistant Professor of Surgery (Plastic) at The New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College, The New York Infirmary-Beckman Downtown Hospital, in New York, New York.
2 Assistant Professor of Surgery at The New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College, in New York, New York.
A 45-year-old, white woman, following mastectomy for a large inflammatory carcinoma of the left breast with multiple involved nodes, had her nipple body-banked in her left groin. She subsequently developed locally recurrent breast carcinoma in the areola of the transplanted nipple with metastases to the groin nodes, for which she received a radical groin dissection. Clinical and pathologic criteria for screening the nipples to be preserved are reviewed, and a plea is made for employing similarly stringent screens to eliminate future cases such as this.
