Pleomorphic Liposarcoma of the Breast Misdiagnosed as Carcinoma in a Tru-cut Biopsy

Case report A 55-year-old Albanian woman was admitted to a hospital in Albania with a mass in her right breast. She had no significant previous medical history. A tru-cut biopsy was performed and the diagnosis was breast carcinoma. The treatment administered consisted f four courses of chemotherapy. No surgery was performed. She came to us due to an increase in the growth of the mass in her right breast after chemotherapy. The physical examination revealed redness, tenderness, induration, and a palpable ill-defined mass in her right breast. There was no nipple discharge. There were no palpable axillary lymph nodes. There were no other masses in her other organs or tissues according to either the physical or radiological examination. Mastectomy and intraoperatively frozen examination of the sentinel lymph node biopsy were planned.