Primary Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma of the Breast: A Rare Breast Entity

Review Data

Purpose and Significance of Study: This is a review of the cases of primary mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the breast, a rare occurrence, in the existing literature.

 

Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of very high interest for the journal Clinical Oncology and Research.

 

o   The manuscript has a few minor errors (already corrected in the galley proof), which are listed below –

 

Some common errors are –

·       Usage of wrong articles, e.g., using “an” instead of “a” before “US guided” in the last sentence of the 1^st paragraph of Case Presentation under Materials and Methods, using “a” instead of “an” before “SLNB” in the last sentence of the 6^th paragraph of Discussion, and so on.

·       Words like “preoperative”, “postoperative” and “neoadjuvant” must be written without hyphens.

·       Words like “fine-needle” and “low-grade” must be hyphenated.

·       Omission of “,”, e.g., after “body” in the 2^nd sentence of the 2^nd paragraph of the Introduction, after “tumours” in the 1^st sentence of the 3^rd paragraph of the Introduction, and so on.

The other errors are listed below –

 

In the Introduction –

  In the 1^st paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “breasts” before “lesions” must be replaced with “breast”.

  In the 4^th paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “previous” must be replaced with “previously”.

In the Materials and Methods –

  Under Literature Review –

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the last sentence, “in” before “the right side” must be replaced with “on”.

  In the 4^th paragraph –

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “that” after “cases” must be replaced with “for which”.

  In the 7^th paragraph –

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “of” after “reason” must be replaced with “for”, and “80y” must be replaced with “80 years”.

  In the 9^th paragraph –

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “quadrectomy” must be replaced with “quadrantectomy”.

In the Discussion –

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “extent” must be replaced with “extended”.

  In the 4^th paragraph –

·       In the 5^th sentence, “cystic like” must be replaced with “cyst like”.

Author Info

Georgios Exarchos Linda Metaxa Louise J. Jones Philip Elliott Philip Dilks Shefali Dani Taha Sewedy Tamara D. Suaris

Corresponding Author

Linda Metaxa
Breast Imaging Department, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK

Article Info

Article Type

Case Report and Review of the Literature

Publication history

Received: Tue 07, Apr 2020
Accepted: Wed 22, Apr 2020
Published: Wed 29, Apr 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Linda Metaxa. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.COR.2020.04.08