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Malignant phyllodes breast tumor

Malignant phyllodes tumor is a rare tumor of the breast occurring in females usually between the ages of 35 and 55 years. It is often difficult to distinguish benign from malignant phyllodes tumors from other benign entities such as fibroadenomas. This case presentation demonstrates a woman with mal...

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Autor principal: Shah-Patel, Lisa R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5823393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29484040
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2017.06.012
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description Malignant phyllodes tumor is a rare tumor of the breast occurring in females usually between the ages of 35 and 55 years. It is often difficult to distinguish benign from malignant phyllodes tumors from other benign entities such as fibroadenomas. This case presentation demonstrates a woman with malignant phyllodes tumor treated with mastectomy with abdominal skin flap reconstruction.
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spelling pubmed-58233932018-02-26 Malignant phyllodes breast tumor Shah-Patel, Lisa R. Radiol Case Rep Breast Imaging Malignant phyllodes tumor is a rare tumor of the breast occurring in females usually between the ages of 35 and 55 years. It is often difficult to distinguish benign from malignant phyllodes tumors from other benign entities such as fibroadenomas. This case presentation demonstrates a woman with malignant phyllodes tumor treated with mastectomy with abdominal skin flap reconstruction. Elsevier 2017-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5823393/ /pubmed/29484040 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2017.06.012 Text en © 2017 The Author http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_short Malignant phyllodes breast tumor
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5823393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29484040
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