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Huge cavernous hemangioma arising in a male breast

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We report a rare case of a huge cavernous hemangioma arising in a male breast.

A 60-year-old man first noticed 1 x 2 cm elastic hard nodule just below his right nipple ten years previously. It enlarged 5 x 5 cm over six years. When he came to our clinic, it was size of child head (510 mm in circumference) ,was an elastic hard with a rather smooth surface, and firmly fixed to the chest wall. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and multidetectocomputed tomography (MDCT) showed a large mass infiltrating into the chest wall. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNA) and core needle biopsy (CNB) failed to obtain proper material except for old bloody fluid or necrotic connective tissue, precluding a correct diagnosis preoperatively. Mastectomy with partial resection of the chest wall was subsequently performed. Histologically, it was found to be a cavernous hemangioma without cellular atypia. In such a case, complete excision is recommended to exclude the possibility of an underlying malignant lesion.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Jikei University Kashiwa Hospital, Japan

    Satoki Kinoshita, Shigeya Kyoda, Kazuto Tsuboi, Kyonsu Son, Teruyuki Usuba, Yuichi Nakasato & Hideyuki Kashiwagi

  2. Department of Pathology, Jikei University Kashiwa Hospital, Japan

    Kazumasa Komine

  3. Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Jikei University Kashiwa Hospital, Japan

    Meisei Takeishi

  4. Department of Surgery, Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan

    Shuji Sato, Hiroshi Takeyama, Ken Uchida & Yoji Yamazaki

  5. Department of Breast Pathology, the Cancer Institute, Japan

    Goi Sakamoto

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Kinoshita, S., Kyoda, S., Tsuboi, K. et al. Huge cavernous hemangioma arising in a male breast. Breast Cancer 12, 231–233 (2005). https://doi.org/10.2325/jbcs.12.231

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