Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Male Breast: A Case Report

Primary leiomyosarcoma of the breast is a rare tumour with only around thirty cases reported in the literature. Most of the cases reported are in females, while only a few are reported in males. We present a case of primary breast leiomyosarcoma in a 59-year-old man that presented with a subareolar...

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Autores principales: Masannat, Yazan, Sumrien, Haytham, Sharaiha, Yousef
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2965433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21048931
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/534102
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author Masannat, Yazan
Sumrien, Haytham
Sharaiha, Yousef
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description Primary leiomyosarcoma of the breast is a rare tumour with only around thirty cases reported in the literature. Most of the cases reported are in females, while only a few are reported in males. We present a case of primary breast leiomyosarcoma in a 59-year-old man that presented with a subareolar lump which felt to be benign clinically and radiologically but proven to be a leiomyosarcoma on excision.
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spelling pubmed-29654332010-11-03 Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Male Breast: A Case Report Masannat, Yazan Sumrien, Haytham Sharaiha, Yousef Case Rep Med Case Report Primary leiomyosarcoma of the breast is a rare tumour with only around thirty cases reported in the literature. Most of the cases reported are in females, while only a few are reported in males. We present a case of primary breast leiomyosarcoma in a 59-year-old man that presented with a subareolar lump which felt to be benign clinically and radiologically but proven to be a leiomyosarcoma on excision. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2965433/ /pubmed/21048931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/534102 Text en Copyright © 2010 Yazan Masannat et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Masannat, Yazan
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Sharaiha, Yousef
Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Male Breast: A Case Report
title Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Male Breast: A Case Report
title_full Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Male Breast: A Case Report
title_fullStr Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Male Breast: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Male Breast: A Case Report
title_short Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Male Breast: A Case Report
title_sort primary leiomyosarcoma of the male breast: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2965433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21048931
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/534102
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