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New Palpable Mass in the Right Breast

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A 55-year-old postmenopausal female presents with a new mass in her right breast. She states that the mass has been there for about 3 months and has slowly grown in size. She first noticed it when she was taking a shower. The mass is not painful. She reports no nipple discharge, no nipple inversion, and no skin changes. She had her first menstrual period at age 11. Her only pregnancy was at age 35. Her mother and sister both had breast cancer. On physical examination, she has a 2 cm palpable, hard, ill-defined, immobile, non-tender mass in the upper outer quadrant of her right breast. There is no palpable axillary or supraclavicular adenopathy.

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  • Breast mass
  • Fibroadenoma
  • Ductal carcinoma
  • Lobular carcinoma
  • Phyllodes
  • BRCA
  • Mammogram
  • Sentinel node
  • Lumpectomy
  • Mastectomy

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, USA

    Areg Grigorian

  2. Department of Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA

    Christian de Virgilio

  3. College of Applied Anatomy, Department of Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Christian de Virgilio

  4. Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA

    Danielle M. Hari

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Grigorian, A., de Virgilio, C., Hari, D.M. (2020). New Palpable Mass in the Right Breast. In: de Virgilio, C., Grigorian, A. (eds) Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05387-1_6

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