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An eighty year old man with a mass in the left breast visited our department on October 27, 1980. Examination disclosed a smooth surfaced, round, elastic soft, 3 cm in diameter sized, non-tender mass underneath the left nipple. Mammogram showed a well defined oval opacity and echogram showed a cystic lesion. The mass was punctured and dark brown fluid was aspirated, but there were no malignant cells. The cyst was extirpated and a rice grain sized mass was found in the cyst wall. Histologically, it was diagnosed as non-infiltrating medullary tubular carcinoma. On November 27, 1980, simple mastectomy revealed no histological evidence of a residual cancer.
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Noguchi, M., Miwa, K. & Miyazaki, I. Intracystic carcinoma of the breast in an elderly man. The Japanese Journal of Surgery 13, 519–523 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02469496
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