Sir, A 63-year-old woman was referred to our institution in December 2008, with right axillary and breast swelling. Clinically, the right breast was enlarged with an ill-defined mass in the lateral half of the right breast, which appeared to be continuous with a lobulated 20cm right axillary mass [Figure 1]. There was associated swelling of the arm and dilated veins over the skin of the breast ...

Background: There is paucity of data on the spectrum breast diseases in India due to lack reporting system. This study was conducted understand pattern northwest India. It by far largest provide epidemiological disease Methods: Total 8604 pathological reports were obtained from four major diagnostic centers North West These included benign and malignant lesions. Results: 5985 (69.56%) lesions g...

BACKGROUND Extramedullary plasma cells tumours are rare. Much more rarer is their occurance in the breast tissue. Our aim is to report a single case of this very rare lesion (at least from an African perspective) that we incidentally diagnosed histopathologically as a primary extramedullary lesion in a 53 year old woman. CASE DETAILS Clinical records of a 53 year old postmenopausal woman was ...

PURPOSE to determine the accuracy of fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) and of core-needle biopsy (CNB) in diagnosing breast lumps and breast cancer. METHODS this was a cross-sectional, retrospective and descriptive study based on the review of medical records. FNAB and CNB were carried out sequentially according to the routine of the Mastology Service. Both percutaneous procedures were app...

Background: Fibroadenoma is the most common type of breast tumor diagnosed in young women, children and adolescents it called juvenile fibroadenoma. These tumors often result emergence, self-confidence, anxiety adolescents. Case Report: A 21-year-old female patient came to surgical clinic with lumps right left breasts since about 4 years ago. History physical examination showed were suspiciousl...

Diabetic mastopathy (DMP) is an uncommon collection of clinical, radiological, and histological features, classically described in premenopausal women with long-term insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. This entity can mimic breast carcinoma, but, in the appropriate clinical and imaging setting, the diagnosis can be made by core biopsy, avoiding unnecessary surgeries. We report the case of a 34...

Spontaneous infarction is an uncommon complication of fibroadenoma of the breast. Although infarction following fine needle aspiration (FNA) has been reported in the literature, infarction encountering on first time aspiration is very rare. Lack of knowledge of this entity may lead to an erroneous diagnosis of inflammatory lesion like mastitis and carcinoma on cytology smears.We report the cyto...

Five cases of infarction of physiological hyperplastic breast tissue associated with pregnancy or lactation are reported. These presented clinically as lumps in the breast, two of which were painful. Similar cases in the literature are briefly reviewed. The demonstration of an underlying lobular pattern in the present cases and the distribution of the infarcts support the view that the so-calle...