10 kilogram breast lump-case report

ABSTRACT

A case of giant fibro-adenoma which weight 10 Kg is reported. Clinical picture A 34 years old nullipara Sudanese female patient was presented to the surgical out patient clinic by huge right breast mass. Clinical examination, mammogram and FNA suggested phylloids tumor. Simple mastectomy was done and histopathological examination diagnosed it as benign phylloids tumor in a background of giant fibroadenoma. postoperative course was uneventful and the patient is fine one year after surgery. Breast reconstruction is planed with plastic surgery department. Giant fibroadenomas have to be differentiated from phylloid cystosarcoma and from the breast hamartoma and asymmetric breast hypertrophy in girls by the lack of mammary lobules. Giant fibroadenoma should take its due place in the diagnostic algorithm of the breast tumors