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Breast hamartoma: Unusual radiological presentation

Breast hamartomas are uncommon slowly growing lesions. Imaging findings are specific and usually relay on common mammographic picture of breast within breast appearance. I present a case of 48 years female patient, with recent history of palpable right breast mass, the imaging findings are atypical...

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Autor principal: Mohamed, Abeer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7585869/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33133326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.10.015
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description Breast hamartomas are uncommon slowly growing lesions. Imaging findings are specific and usually relay on common mammographic picture of breast within breast appearance. I present a case of 48 years female patient, with recent history of palpable right breast mass, the imaging findings are atypical for breast hamartoma. The unusual presentation of breast hamartomas necessitates biopsy to exclude tumor. Incidence of malignancy is low, however has been reported before. Characteristic radiological imaging can help to minimize unnecessary surgery and morbidity.
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spelling pubmed-75858692020-10-30 Breast hamartoma: Unusual radiological presentation Mohamed, Abeer Radiol Case Rep Case Report Breast hamartomas are uncommon slowly growing lesions. Imaging findings are specific and usually relay on common mammographic picture of breast within breast appearance. I present a case of 48 years female patient, with recent history of palpable right breast mass, the imaging findings are atypical for breast hamartoma. The unusual presentation of breast hamartomas necessitates biopsy to exclude tumor. Incidence of malignancy is low, however has been reported before. Characteristic radiological imaging can help to minimize unnecessary surgery and morbidity. Elsevier 2020-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7585869/ /pubmed/33133326 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.10.015 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. 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 Breast hamartoma: Unusual radiological presentation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7585869/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33133326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.10.015
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