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CASE REPORT
Year : 2014  |  Volume : 4  |  Issue : 2  |  Page : 44-45

Giant fibroadenoma of the breast mimicking phyllodes tumor in an adult female: emphasizing the role of cytology in the diagnosis


1 Department of Surgery, Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre, Pimpri, Pune, India
2 Department of Anesthesia, Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre, Pimpri, Pune, India
3 Department of Surgery, Rural Medical College, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences, Loni, Maharashtra, India
4 Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Correspondence Address:
Dr. Bhushan Shah
Department of Surgery, Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre, Pimpri, Pune
India
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Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None


DOI: 10.4103/2230-7095.149772

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Giant fibroadenoma is an uncommon variant of fibroadenoma with an overall incidence of <4%. It is common in adolescent age group and is seldom seen in elderly. Often surgeons might encounter a diagnostic dilemma between phyllodes tumor (PT) of the breast and a giant fibroadenoma. We herein report a similar case of a middle-aged woman with an unusually large fibroadenoma of the breast mimicking a PT and emphasize the role of fine-needle aspiration cytology in differentiation of these two different breast entity.


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