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- Title
Nodular Fasciitis of the Breast Mimicking Breast Cancer.
- Authors
Shinya Yamamoto; Takashi Chishima; Shouko Adachi
- Abstract
Nodular fasciitis is a benign proliferative lesion that is usually found in the soft tissue of the upper extremity and trunk in young to middle-aged persons. It has rarely been described in the breast. A 35-year-old woman had noticed a mass in her left breast. It was elastic-hard, 13mm in size, and located mainly in the upper inner quadrant of the left breast. Mammography did not detect the mass. Ultrasonography revealed a hypoechoic lesion with an irregular margin. Neither fine-needle aspiration cytology nor core needle biopsy established a definitive diagnosis. Excisional biopsy was therefore performed. Histologically, the excised tumor tissue results were consistent with a diagnosis of nodular fasciitis of the breast. We report a case of nodular fasciitis of the breast, a rare histological type of breast tumor.
- Subjects
FASCIAE diseases; INFLAMMATION; BREAST surgery; NODULAR fasciitis; ONCOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL care; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Case Reports in Surgery, 2014, p1
- ISSN
2090-6900
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1155/2014/747951