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Case Reports
. 2011 Nov 8;183(16):1875-8.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.110953. Epub 2011 Sep 26.

A breast mass in a 56-year-old man

Derek R MacFadden  1 , Wayne L Gold, Susan E Richardson, Paul E Bunce
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Case Reports

A breast mass in a 56-year-old man

Derek R MacFadden et al. CMAJ. .
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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Mammogram of the right breast of a 56-year-old man (right craniocaudal view) showing a well-defined, noncalcified lesion (arrow).
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
Micrograph of a specimen from a tissue biopsy from the patient’s right breast (600 × magnification, hematoxylin and eosin stain) showing multinucleated giant cells engulfing yeast forms (arrow).
Figure 3:
Figure 3:
Contrast-enhanced computed tomography image of the patient’s thorax (sagittal view) showing a well-defined mass in the right breast (arrow). The mass does not show extension to the underlying chest wall.
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