Wandering humeral head mimicking a breast mass.

نویسندگان

  • Gerald J S Tan
  • Andrew G S Tan
  • Wilfred C G Peh
چکیده

A 74-year-old woman was incidentally found to have a left breast mass. The mass could not be adequately compressed to be visualized on mammography. Ultrasonography showed a heavily-calcified rounded mass in the left axillary tail of the left breast. Chest radiograph confirmed that the mass was a migrated humeral head. Remotely-displaced fracture-dislocations of the humeral head are very rare and to our knowledge, displacement into the breast, clinically mimicking a breast mass, has not been previously described.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Medical journal of Malaysia

دوره 63 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008