Vulvar fibroadenoma: a common neoplasm in an uncommon site

Vulvar fibroadenomas are sporadic lesions informed in the literature and a controversy about origin has been discussed widely. We report a case of a 19 years old woman with a large slow growing mass in the right labia majora with the final diagnosis of fibroadenoma with mammary tissue surrounding it...

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Autores principales: Cantú de Leon, David, Perez Montiel, Delia, Vázquez, Hugo, Hernández, César, Cetina, Lucely, Lucio, Martha Hernandez
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2760552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19785728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-70
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author Cantú de Leon, David
Perez Montiel, Delia
Vázquez, Hugo
Hernández, César
Cetina, Lucely
Lucio, Martha Hernandez
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Perez Montiel, Delia
Vázquez, Hugo
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Cetina, Lucely
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description Vulvar fibroadenomas are sporadic lesions informed in the literature and a controversy about origin has been discussed widely. We report a case of a 19 years old woman with a large slow growing mass in the right labia majora with the final diagnosis of fibroadenoma with mammary tissue surrounding it and positive hormone receptors. In this case, we support the origin in ectopic mammary tissue.
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spelling pubmed-27605522009-10-13 Vulvar fibroadenoma: a common neoplasm in an uncommon site Cantú de Leon, David Perez Montiel, Delia Vázquez, Hugo Hernández, César Cetina, Lucely Lucio, Martha Hernandez World J Surg Oncol Case Report Vulvar fibroadenomas are sporadic lesions informed in the literature and a controversy about origin has been discussed widely. We report a case of a 19 years old woman with a large slow growing mass in the right labia majora with the final diagnosis of fibroadenoma with mammary tissue surrounding it and positive hormone receptors. In this case, we support the origin in ectopic mammary tissue. BioMed Central 2009-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2760552/ /pubmed/19785728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-70 Text en Copyright © 2009 de Leon 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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Cantú de Leon, David
Perez Montiel, Delia
Vázquez, Hugo
Hernández, César
Cetina, Lucely
Lucio, Martha Hernandez
Vulvar fibroadenoma: a common neoplasm in an uncommon site
title Vulvar fibroadenoma: a common neoplasm in an uncommon site
title_full Vulvar fibroadenoma: a common neoplasm in an uncommon site
title_fullStr Vulvar fibroadenoma: a common neoplasm in an uncommon site
title_full_unstemmed Vulvar fibroadenoma: a common neoplasm in an uncommon site
title_short Vulvar fibroadenoma: a common neoplasm in an uncommon site
title_sort vulvar fibroadenoma: a common neoplasm in an uncommon site
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2760552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19785728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-70
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