Sentence examples for underlying carcinoma from inspiring English sources
Because survival depends on the stage of the underlying carcinoma, the low rate of the underlying tumor seems to result in good prognosis [2, 6, 9, 10].
Conventional contrast-enhanced MDCT is also highly reliable in excluding an underlying carcinoma [9, 10].
This is one of the widely accepted theories as the Paget cells and the underlying carcinoma share the same immunohistochemical profile.
Therefore, because the reduced invasiveness of SLNB, this procedure was worth considering in the present case regardless of findings suggestive of an underlying carcinoma.
No underlying carcinoma was found in the resected specimen, and Paget cells were found to be spread more extensively to the skin than expected (Fig 3), although the resected margin was negative (Fig. 4).
PD of the breast is accompanied by invasive or noninvasive underlying carcinomas in 84~94 % of the cases [3 5], and the prognosis of mammary PD is correlated with the stage of the underlying carcinoma.
The rate of patients without underlying carcinomas may be higher than females.
Kubota et al. [17] reviewed 28 cases of pPD associated with anorectal carcinoma, and Goldman et al. [10] reported that pPD with underlying anorectal carcinoma comprises 33% of pPD cases.
Generally, the prognosis of PD confined to the epidermis is good, however, it is poorer in patients with underlying anorectal carcinoma [19, 20].
The rate of malignancy associated with pPD ranges from 33 to 86% [8], and it is also associated with underlying anorectal carcinoma [9, 10].
Computed tomography and mammary ultrasonography confirmed the absence of an underlying invasive carcinoma, and the patient underwent right mastectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB).
