Abstract

QUINTERO, Carlos et al. Ganglio centinela en la enfermedad de Paget a propósito de un caso. Rev. venez. oncol. [online]. 2008, vol.20, n.4, pp.213-215. ISSN 0798-0582.

The present clinical case is the description of a female patient, 65 years old with diagnosis of Paget’s disease of the right breast of one year of evolution. Clinical and the imaginologic studies do not discover tumor disease in the breast. She was planificated for a simple mastectomy surgery plus sentinel lymph node biopsy, this was negative at the frozen section and the final pathologic report described Paget disease plus ductal carcinoma in situ , with two lymph nodes negative for disease. We describe the utility of the sentinel lymph node in the Paget’s disease as a therapeutic option to determine the axillaries status. We describe the first experience in our institution Oncological Hospital “Father Machado”.

Keywords : Breast; tumor; Paget disease; sentinel lymph node.