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Case Reports
. 2015 Feb 27:13:81.
doi: 10.1186/s12957-015-0508-7.

Huge malignant phyllodes breast tumor: a real entity in a new era of early breast cancer

Alberto Testori  1 , Stefano Meroni  2 , Valentina Errico  3 , Roberto Travaglini  4 , Emanuele Voulaz  5 , Marco Alloisio  6
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Case Reports

Huge malignant phyllodes breast tumor: a real entity in a new era of early breast cancer

Alberto Testori et al. World J Surg Oncol. .

Abstract

Phyllodes tumor is an extremely rare tumor of the breast. It occurs in females in the third and fourth decades. The difficulty in distinguishing between phyllodes tumors and benign fibroadenoma may lead to misdiagnosis. Lymph node involvement is rarely described in phyllodes tumors; for this reason, sentinel node biopsy may be warranted. We present a case of a 33-year-old woman affected by huge tumor of the right breast with ulceration in the skin with a rapid tumor growth and with omolateral axillary metastasis.

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Figure 1
Malignant phyllodes tumor of the right breast with a diameter of 40 cm in a 33-year-old patient. The visible vessels, the thinned skin, and ulceration through the skin with exudate and foul smell are characteristics for large phyllodes tumors.
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Figure 2
Operative finding during radical mastectomy with partial resection of major pectoral muscle.
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