PRIMARY NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR OF THE BREAST

Adult neuroendocrine tumors may present with a wide range of clinical symptoms that share specific ultrastructural and biochemical features. A 63-year-old post-menopausal female patient was admitted to the hosp ital with a mass in her right breast and the diagnosis was primary neu roendocrine tumor of the breast. Although neuroendocrine tumors can or iginate in various parts of the body and breast carcinoma with neuroen docrine differentiation has been described, primary neuroendocrine tum or of the breast is very unusual. This case is now presented and the c urrent Literature is reviewed.