BACKGROUND Phyllodes tumor (PT) is a rare neoplasm of the breast. Concomitant PT with invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) is an even rarer occurrence. When ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) or IDC are detected within the specimen, the management changes from wide local excision to further staging work-up, including sentinel node biopsy and radiation. CASE REPORT We report the case of a 70-year-old pr...

introduction: different imaging modalities are used to evaluate salivary gland diseases, including tumors. ultrasonography (us) is the preferred method on account of its ease of use, affordability, safety profile, and good tolerance among patients. the aim of this study was to evaluate the role of us in differentiating malignant from benign parotid tumors, in the context of previous controversy...

Differential diagnosis of spindle cell lesions of breast is challenging for certain reasons. The most important reason is the presence of cytological atypia and mitosis in all three conditions: reactive, benign, and malignant. Patients diagnosed with benign and malignant tumor/tumor-like lesions that had spindle cell components following the histopathological examination were included in the st...

W e read with interest Roy et al's 1 case report of a patient with pseudoangiomatous stro-mal hyperplasia (PASH) causing gigantomastia. We report a similar case in a 29-year-old woman with rapidly progressing macromastia (Fig. 1), who also complained of cyclical breast swelling and multiple palpable breast masses, with biopsy proven PASH. Although we commend the aesthetic result achieved by Roy...

Background Phyllodes tumors of the breast are rare and locally aggressive neoplasms. Our study aimed to report the experience of the Farhat Hached Hospital (Sousse, Tunisia) acquired during a 7-year period and to give an additional review of the available literature. Methods The authors analyzed retrospectively clinical, radiological, histopathological and therapeutic features as well as outc...

The term phyllodes tumour includes lesions ranging from completely benign tumours to malignant sarcomas. Clinically phyllodes tumours are smooth, rounded, and usually painless multinodular lesions indistinguishable from fibroadenomas. Percentage of phyllodes tumour classified as malignant ranges from 23% to 50%. We report a case of second largest phyllodes tumour in a 35-year-old lady who prese...

In the 4th edition of the WHO Classification of Tumours of the Breast, myoepithelial lesions are retitled myoepithelial and epithelial-myoepithelial lesions in order to better reflect the dual participation of luminal and myoepithelial compartments in some key entities. Malignant myoepithelioma, described as a section within the chapter on myoepithelial lesions in the 3rd edition, is recognised...

Undifferentiated mammary sarcoma is extremely rare and the diagnosis is made only after exclusion of metaplastic carcinomas and malignant phyllodes tumor. Mammary sarcomas mostly display specified entities like liposarcomas or angiosarcomas. A 18-year-old female presented in 2010 with a right breast lump for which lumpectomy was done and on histopathological examination benign phyllodes tumor w...

A rare case of a borderline phyllodes tumor with simultaneous intraductal and infiltrating duct carcinoma is reported. The patient was a 52-year-old woman with a breast tumor detected by physical examination. A simple mastectomy was performed. The excised tumor had a macroscopic appearance of a phyllodes tumor. After histological examination, the diagnosis of ductal carcinoma within a borderlin...

benign renal cystic adenoma with out malignant features is a very rare entity. a 75 year old male with obstructive lower tract symptoms and vague flank pain was admitted and planned for nephrectomy of non functional kidney -due to long term nephrolithiasis- intra operative finding was a cystic hydronephrotic kidney filled by thick mucous secretions which turned out to be a cyst adenoma of kidne...