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Patient ages at initial diagnosis ranged from 25–64 years
(mean age 44.1 years). Breast-conserving surgery was performed
in 23 patients and mastectomy in 51.
The histologic type records were unavailable for 10
patients because they underwent primary surgery at
another institution or at our institution but pathologic
records were unavailable. Therefore, the original tumor
histologic types were available for 64 of the 74 patients.
The histopathologic diagnosis of primary and first recurrent
tumors in 74 patients are presented in Table 1. The original
tumor sizes were available for 46 patients and these ranged
from 5–105 mm (mean 25.4 mm). Numbers of positive axillary
lymph nodes at time of surgery were available for 61
patients, and 20 had positive axillary lymph nodes
(32.8%); 11 had pN1, three patients had pN2, and six
patients had pN3 stage. Histologic grade was available for
44 patients; four were of histologic grade 1, 20 were of
grade 2, and 20 were of grade 3. Therefore, 91% of the
patients (40 of 44) with available histologic grade data
were of histologic grade 2 or 3. Endolymphatic tumor
emboli were visible in 15 (30.6%) of 49 patients with
available records for tumor emboli.