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Table 1 The characteristics of primary ectopic breast carcinoma of the vulva

From: Primary ectopic breast cancer of the vulva, treated with local excision of the vulva and sentinel lymph node biopsy: a case report

Ref.

Year

Age

Size (cm) operation

Adjuvant therapy

Histology

ER

PR

Her2

LN

Status

Follow-up (months)

Greene [12]

1935

59

20

None

None

Adenocarcinoma

*

*

*

*

Dead

1

Hendrix [13]

1956

58

3

Vulvectomy

None

Adenocarcinoma

*

*

*

*

Dead

4

Guerry [14]

1976

62

1.5

Partial

None

Ductal carcinoma

*

*

*

*

Dead

24

Cho [15]

1985

70

4

Hemi-vulvectomy + LND

Tamoxifen

Adenocarcinoma

(+)

(+)

*

2/9

DF

24

Simon [16]

1988

60

2

Vulvectomy + LND1

CT + tamoxifen

Adenocarcinoma

(+)

(+)

*

3/11

Dead

27

Rose [17]

1990

68

3.5

Vulvectomy

RT + tamoxifen

Ductal carcinoma

(+)

(−)

*

1/15

*

*

Bonito [18]

1992

46

1.5

Vulvectomy + LND

None

*

*

*

*

11/13

DF

4

Bailey [19]

1993

65

3

Vulvectomy + LND

Tamoxifen

Ductal carcinoma

(+)

(+)

*

2/20

DF

12

Levin [20]

1994

62

2.5

Partial + LND

Tamoxifen

Adenocarcinoma

(+)

(−)

(+)

4/11

DF

24

Kennedy [21]

1997

71

5

Vulvectomy + LND

CT + RT

*

(−)

(−)

*

9/9

DF

15

Irvin [22]

1998

64

3

Partial + LND

CT + RT-F tamoxifen

Adenocarcinoma

(+)

(+)

*

1/14

DF

4

Gorisek [23]

2000

81

3

Partial

Tamoxifen

Adenocarcinoma

(+)

(+)

*

 

DF

19

Neumann [24] 2000

60

3

Hemi-vulvectomy + LND

CT + RT + tamoxifen

ILC

(+)

(+)

*

21/21

DF

20

Piura [25]

2002

69

3

Vulvectomy + LND

CT + tamoxifen

Adenocarcinoma

(+)

(+)

*

7/15

DF

14

Chung [26]

2002

47

2

Vulvectomy

None

Mucinous

(+)

(+)

(−)

*

DF

36

Yin [27]

2003

84

5

Partial + LND

None

Mucinous

(+)

(+)

(−)

1/11

DF

9

Lopes [28]

2006

44

2

Partial + LND

CT + tamoxifen

Mucinous

(+)

*

(−)

2/13

*

*

Fracchioli [29] 2006

57

1

Vulvectomy + LND

CT + tamoxifen

Adenocarcinoma

(−)

*

*

7/7

Rec

36

North [4]

2006

49

1.5

Partial + LND

CT + tamoxifen

Ductal carcinoma

(+)

(+)

(−)

5/7

*

*

Martinez [10]

2007

49

3.5

Partial + SLNB—LND

Tamoxifen

Ductal carcinoma

(+)

(+)

*

0/14

*

*

Naseer [30]

2011

57

1.5

Partial + LND

CT + aromatase

Ductal carcinoma

(+)

(+)

(−)

3/13

*

*

Diniz [2]

2012

82

2

Partial

RT + letrozole

IDC

(+)

(+)

*

*

DF

48

McMaster [31] 2013

60

3

Partial

RT

Ductal carcinoma

(+)

*

*

*

*

*

Bogani [9]

2013

71

4

Vulvectomy + SLNB—LND

CT + tamoxifen

Ductal carcinoma

(+)

(+)

*

1/8

DF

24

Lamb [5]

2013

59

1

Partial + LND

Tamoxifen

Adenocarcinoma

(+)

(+)

(−)

*

*

*

James [7]

2015

62

1.3

Partial

CT + RT

IDC

(+)

(+)

(−)

*

Rec

13

Present case

2016

72

1.5

Partial + SLNB

Aromatase

IDC

(+)

(+)

(−)

0/1

DF

6

  1. LND (inguinal)lymph node dissection, LND1 (inguinal and pelvic) LND, SLNB sentinel lymph node biopsy, CT chemotherapy, RT radiotherapy, ILC invasive lobular carcinoma, IDC invasive ductal carcinoma, Dead death of disease, DF disease-free, Rec recurrence, * unknown