Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma in a Male Breast - A Rare Case Report.

Primary breast diffuse large B cell lymphoma (PBL) in male patients represents a rare clinical phenomenon and can imitate a breast carcinoma in its clinical presentation, so, therefore, the initial treatment for most patients remains surgery. Prompt diagnosis associating subsequent treatment combining chemotherapy and radiotherapy are of the utmost importance. We herein report a 56 years old male patient diagnosed with diffuse large B cell lymphoma, after clinically presenting with a visible tumor in the left breast and showing no axillary lymphadenopathy. Following clinical diagnosis we performed a breast biopsy with subsequent immunohistochemistry testing. The results showed that the malignant cells stained positive for CD 20, CD 10, and negative for BCL 2, myc and BCL 6, ER/PR with a high proliferation index (Ki 67 90%). The immunohistochemical tests were suggestive for primary large B cell lymphoma of the breast, germinal center type. The patient was submitted to three cycles of R-CHOP (cyclophosphamide, adryamicin, vincristine and prednisolone) and rituximab chemotherapy. Primary diffuse large B cell lymphoma is an extremely unique disease that involves a rather difficult differential diagnosis with a breast carcinoma. A strong index of clinical suspicion is necessary with early diagnosis and treatment.

Solitary Adrenal Metastases from Breast Invasive Ductal Carcinoma.

The usual neoplastic dissease involving suprarenal glands are adrenal metastaes. The majority of suprarenal metastatic disease arise from lung cancer, followed by the stomach and colon cancer, oesophagus, the liver/bile ducts cancer and renal cell carcinoma. Invasive mammary carcinoma usually spreads to the bones, lungs, lymph nodes, liver and the brain. Adrenal gland metastases from invasive no special type carcinoma represents an extremly low rate number of cases. We discuss about a 66 year old patient who presented with a solitary adrenal metastases from triple negative breast invasive carcinoma. The patient underwent total left adrenalectomy in June 2016. No further adjuvants therapies were performed. At the time of writing the patient is in good condition, without any evidence of recurrence. The role of surgical and adjuvant therapy in treating adrenal metastases after breast cancer in survival rate will be determined in future studies.

A Lesser-Known Hepatic Anatomical and Surgical Structure: the Rouviere-Gans Incisura (RGI).

Rouviere-Gans incisura (RGI) is a relatively frequent hepatic anatomosurgical structure (it appears in 52%-80% of cases), but it is not wellknown in hepatic surgery. The presence of RGI is an important landmark to avoid biliary lesions during laparoscopic cholecystectomy, since it allows the isolation of the right posterior glissonean pedicle in 70% of cases, therefore simplifying the resection of the posterior right hepatic section or its segments (Sg6 and Sg7). While performing a right posterior hepatic resection for living-donor liver transplantation, the presence of the RGI facilitates the dissection of the vasculo-biliary structures in the right posterior glissonean pedicle.