Cavernous lymphangioma of the breast

BACKGROUND: Cavernous lymphangioma is a rare lesion in the breast of adults. Only a few cases have been documented in literature. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a 38-year-old woman who presented with a palpable breast lump, which measured 5 × 4 cm. A local excision of the lump was performed and a di...

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Autores principales: Ogun, Gabriel O, Oyetunde, O, Akang, EffiongE
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1906778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17584918
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-69
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Oyetunde, O
Akang, EffiongE
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Akang, EffiongE
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description BACKGROUND: Cavernous lymphangioma is a rare lesion in the breast of adults. Only a few cases have been documented in literature. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a 38-year-old woman who presented with a palpable breast lump, which measured 5 × 4 cm. A local excision of the lump was performed and a diagnosis of cavernous lymphangioma was made. The patient is alive and well, after five years of follow-up, with no complaints or recurrence. CONCLUSION: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case to be documented in a black African woman. Complete surgical excision seems to be the best modality of treatment of this lesion.
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spelling pubmed-19067782007-07-04 Cavernous lymphangioma of the breast Ogun, Gabriel O Oyetunde, O Akang, EffiongE World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Cavernous lymphangioma is a rare lesion in the breast of adults. Only a few cases have been documented in literature. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe a 38-year-old woman who presented with a palpable breast lump, which measured 5 × 4 cm. A local excision of the lump was performed and a diagnosis of cavernous lymphangioma was made. The patient is alive and well, after five years of follow-up, with no complaints or recurrence. CONCLUSION: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case to be documented in a black African woman. Complete surgical excision seems to be the best modality of treatment of this lesion. BioMed Central 2007-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC1906778/ /pubmed/17584918 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-69 Text en Copyright © 2007 Ogun 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.
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Oyetunde, O
Akang, EffiongE
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title_full_unstemmed Cavernous lymphangioma of the breast
title_short Cavernous lymphangioma of the breast
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1906778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17584918
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-5-69
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