A 45-year-old, white woman, following mastectomy for a large inflammatory carcinoma of the left breast with multiple involved nodes, had her nipple body-banked in her left groin. She subsequently developed locally recurrent breast carcinoma in the areola of the transplanted nipple with metastases to the groin nodes, for which she received a radical groin dissection. Clinical and pathologic criteria for screening the nipples to be preserved are reviewed, and a plea is made for employing similarly stringent screens to eliminate future cases such as this.
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Cucin et al. (1981) studied this question.