SYNCHRONOUS PAGETS-DISEASE OF THE VULVA AND BREAST

We report the first case of synchronous Paget's disease of the vulva a nd breast diagnosed within a period of 7 months. This is the fourth ca se of mammary Paget's disease associated with either preceding or foll owing vulvar Paget's disease documented in the literature. With consid eration of increasing age of the population, and the fact that vulvar Paget's disease affects elderly women and that breast cancer is the mo st common malignancy of women in the United States, one can anticipate the occurrence of these two conditions to be more prevalent in the fu ture. (C) 1998 Academic Press.