A giant fibroadenoma in a mature woman: diagnosis and treatment in a limited resource environment (a case report)

We report an extremely rare case of a 40-year-old woman with a giant fibroadenoma of 30cm in diameter that was accompanied by ulceration and bleeding. We document the onset, the clinical presentation, as well as the challenge encountered in the diagnosis and managing in a limited resource environmen...

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Autores principales: Kabuyaya, Médard Kakule, Mutombo, Fabrice Lele, Moseka, Francine Mbonga, Kihemba, Kasereka, Wetzig, Neil, Lussy, Justin Paluku
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8488286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34650650
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.19.26200
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author Kabuyaya, Médard Kakule
Mutombo, Fabrice Lele
Moseka, Francine Mbonga
Kihemba, Kasereka
Wetzig, Neil
Lussy, Justin Paluku
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spelling pubmed-84882862021-10-13 A giant fibroadenoma in a mature woman: diagnosis and treatment in a limited resource environment (a case report) Kabuyaya, Médard Kakule Mutombo, Fabrice Lele Moseka, Francine Mbonga Kihemba, Kasereka Wetzig, Neil Lussy, Justin Paluku Pan Afr Med J Case Report We report an extremely rare case of a 40-year-old woman with a giant fibroadenoma of 30cm in diameter that was accompanied by ulceration and bleeding. We document the onset, the clinical presentation, as well as the challenge encountered in the diagnosis and managing in a limited resource environment. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8488286/ /pubmed/34650650 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.19.26200 Text en Copyright: Médard Kakule Kabuyaya et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Kabuyaya, Médard Kakule
Mutombo, Fabrice Lele
Moseka, Francine Mbonga
Kihemba, Kasereka
Wetzig, Neil
Lussy, Justin Paluku
A giant fibroadenoma in a mature woman: diagnosis and treatment in a limited resource environment (a case report)
title A giant fibroadenoma in a mature woman: diagnosis and treatment in a limited resource environment (a case report)
title_full A giant fibroadenoma in a mature woman: diagnosis and treatment in a limited resource environment (a case report)
title_fullStr A giant fibroadenoma in a mature woman: diagnosis and treatment in a limited resource environment (a case report)
title_full_unstemmed A giant fibroadenoma in a mature woman: diagnosis and treatment in a limited resource environment (a case report)
title_short A giant fibroadenoma in a mature woman: diagnosis and treatment in a limited resource environment (a case report)
title_sort giant fibroadenoma in a mature woman: diagnosis and treatment in a limited resource environment (a case report)
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8488286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34650650
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.19.26200
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