INTRODUCTION Breast adenoma is common. However, in the setting of post-transplantation immune suppression it may be expressed differently. CASE PRESENTATION A 35-year-old Sudanese woman, with a history of renal transplantation two and half years prior to presentation, was on a single immune suppression therapy in the form of cyclosporine-A since the transplantation. During a regular follow-up...

Ectopic breast tissue is reported to occur in 0.4% 6% of women. Breast neoplasms may develop in ectopic breast tissue, as in eutopic breast tissue. The most frequent condition in ectopic breast is breast cancer. Fibroadenomas of ectopic breast tissue have been reported, but are rare. We report two cases of fibroadenomas of ectopic axillary breast tissues. The sonographic appearance of the nodul...

Primary osteosarcoma of the breast is a rare malignant tumour. We report such a case in a 77-year-old lady who presented with a hard lump which was clinically and mammographically indistinguishable from a calcified fibroadenoma. Wide local excision of the lesion was carried out. Detailed histological and immunohistochemical features of the tumour are described. Because there was no evidence of ...

Clonality of fibroadenoma and phyllodes tumor of the breast was analyzed by means of the polymerase chain reaction using small DNA samples prepared from cryostat sections. The method of clonal analysis was based on restriction fragment length polymorphism of X-chromosome-linked phosphoglycerokinase gene and on differential methylation of the gene. Specimens from 10 fibroadenomas and 5 phyllodes...

To the Editor: The optimal management for treatment of large or giant fibroadenomas remains controversial. Patients with giant fibroadenomas should be treated with the assumption that the lesion is benign, and therefore local excision is the treatment of choice (1). The inframammary incision is in fact an excellent option for excising these large tumors with conservation of the breast, and cert...

Intraparenchymal leiomyoma of the breast are among benign non-epithelial tumors with the lowest incidence. Although it displays a benign histology, it may be confused with malignant lesions and create diagnostic confusion. In this paper, we report a 44-year-old woman with a painless mass with a diameter of 1.5 cm in the upper medial quadrant of her right breast. The lesion was removed surgicall...

Shear Wave Induced Resonance (SWIR) is a technique for dynamic ultrasound elastography of confined mechanical inclusions. It was developed for breast tumor imaging and tissue characterization. This method relies on the polarization of torsional shear waves modeled with the Helmholtz equation in spherical coordinates. To validate modeling, an in vitro set-up was used to measure and image the fir...

Clonality uf Fibroadenoma and phyllodes tumor of the breast was an alyzed by means of the polymerase chain reaction using small DNA sam ples prepared from cryostat sections. The method of clonal analysis was based on restriction fragment length polymorphism of X-chromosomelinked phosphoglycerokinase gene and on differential methylation of the gene. Specimens from 10 fibroadenomas and 5 phyllode...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of sub-classification of breast diseases using Fine Needle Aspiration cytology (FNAC). MATERIALS AND METHODS A one-year prospective study of 180 consecutive patients with palpable breast lesions who underwent FNAC and subsequently open surgical biopsy for histological confirmation. FNAC was used to sub-classify breast lesions and the...

Fibroadenoma is a common benign tumor observed during the second and third decades of life. Malignancy transformation in the epithelial component of a fibroadenoma is rare and can occur 20 years after its diagnosis. Mammographic findings in this phenomenon include indistinct margins and microcalcifications. Here we present a 58-year-old woman with a mobile, lateral upper quadrant mass that was ...