Solitary neurofibroma in the male breast

BACKGROUND: Neurofibroma of the male breast outside of neurofibromatosis is extremely rare with only one previous case having been reported. CASE PRESENTATION: A 48 year old male patient with a neurofibroma in the breast presenting with gynaecomastia is reported. Clinical and mammogram findings with...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Jeyaretna, Deva S, Oriolowo, Adewunmi, Smith, Mark EF, Watkins, Roger M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1808458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17324294
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-23
_version_ 1782132539076378624
author Jeyaretna, Deva S
Oriolowo, Adewunmi
Smith, Mark EF
Watkins, Roger M
author_facet Jeyaretna, Deva S
Oriolowo, Adewunmi
Smith, Mark EF
Watkins, Roger M
author_sort Jeyaretna, Deva S
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: Neurofibroma of the male breast outside of neurofibromatosis is extremely rare with only one previous case having been reported. CASE PRESENTATION: A 48 year old male patient with a neurofibroma in the breast presenting with gynaecomastia is reported. Clinical and mammogram findings with fine needle aspiration cytology and full histology are presented. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge this is only the second case of a neurofibroma in a male breast in the English literature and the first report to include the mammographic findings.
format Text
id pubmed-1808458
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2007
publisher BioMed Central
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-18084582007-03-03 Solitary neurofibroma in the male breast Jeyaretna, Deva S Oriolowo, Adewunmi Smith, Mark EF Watkins, Roger M World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Neurofibroma of the male breast outside of neurofibromatosis is extremely rare with only one previous case having been reported. CASE PRESENTATION: A 48 year old male patient with a neurofibroma in the breast presenting with gynaecomastia is reported. Clinical and mammogram findings with fine needle aspiration cytology and full histology are presented. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge this is only the second case of a neurofibroma in a male breast in the English literature and the first report to include the mammographic findings. BioMed Central 2007-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC1808458/ /pubmed/17324294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-23 Text en Copyright © 2007 Jeyaretna et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Jeyaretna, Deva S
Oriolowo, Adewunmi
Smith, Mark EF
Watkins, Roger M
Solitary neurofibroma in the male breast
title Solitary neurofibroma in the male breast
title_full Solitary neurofibroma in the male breast
title_fullStr Solitary neurofibroma in the male breast
title_full_unstemmed Solitary neurofibroma in the male breast
title_short Solitary neurofibroma in the male breast
title_sort solitary neurofibroma in the male breast
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1808458/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17324294
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-23
work_keys_str_mv AT jeyaretnadevas solitaryneurofibromainthemalebreast
AT oriolowoadewunmi solitaryneurofibromainthemalebreast
AT smithmarkef solitaryneurofibromainthemalebreast
AT watkinsrogerm solitaryneurofibromainthemalebreast

Ejemplares similares