Excision of multiple fibroadenomas (MF) in separate breast quadrants presents difficulties of number and location of incision(s) and extent of tissue dissection and may be associated with more complications and poorer cosmetic outcome. This is a report of excision of MF in multiple quadrants of the breast using a modification of subcutaneous dissection technique dubbed the circumareolar incisio...

Schwannomas or neurilemmomas are benign neoplasms of the Schwann cells in neural sheaths. They may arise in any nerve in the body and occur frequently in the head and neck region or extremities. While breast lumps and schwannomas are very common, mammary schwannomas are exceedingly scarce with ,30 cases reported in the literature. We describe a case of a breast schwannoma in a 37-year-old femal...

The value of a system for reducing the number of women with breast lumps who consent unnecessarily to mastectomy was assessed. Sixty-one patients with breast lumps were divided preoperatively into three groups with benign, doubtful, and malignant lumps according to clinical, mammographic and ultrasound criteria. On the basis of these criteria written consent was requested from 29 patients for m...

Report of the cases Details of 10 patients are summarised in Table I. All were negro females and presented with painful breast lumps. In 2 patients (Cases I and 10) carcinoma was suspected clinically because of skin tethering over the lump and palpable axillary lymph nodes. In the others the clinical diagnosis was fibroadenoma. All were solitary lesions confined to one breast and none had a his...

Needle aspiration with immediate cytological reporting has been practised in a breast clinic for one year. Patients benefit by receiving immediately the provisional diagnosis and, when indicated, appointments for metastatic surveys. Close co-operation between surgeon and cytologist has resulted in increased skill in aspiration, better preparation of samples, and greater accuracy in interpretati...

BACKGROUND Extramedullary myelomas (plasmacytoma) are malignant proliferations of plasma cells in the absence of bone involvement. When they occur in the soft tissue they usually involve the upper respiratory tract and oral cavity. Extramedullary plasmacytomas of breast are uncommon. CASE PRESENTATION A 70 year-old woman with bilateral breast masses underwent excisional biopsy for suspected p...

Abstract Background Breast metastasis in hematological malignancies is a rare phenomenon, and it primarily seen acute myeloid leukemia (AML). In patients with lymphoblastic (ALL), this condition even rarer. Case presentation. We present case of precursor B cell ALL involving breast 40-year-old female its imaging features on mammography ultrasound. Histopathology core needle biopsy (CNB) specime...

background: 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. case...

OBJECTIVE To determine the accuracy of frozen section in the diagnosis of breast lump. METHODS Frozen section diagnosis given in consecutive breast biopsies performed in 5 years in our laboratory was evaluated against the final pathology report of permanent sections. RESULTS The Aga Khan University Hospital Lab receives more than 400 cases per year for frozen section. Three hundred and nine...