Juvenile fibroadenoma accounts for 4% of the total fibroadenomas. Giant juvenile fibroadenoma is found in only 0.5% of all fibroadenomas. The authors report a 10-year girl presenting with progressive enlargement of both breasts for one year. Based on clinical findings and Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC), a diagnosis of bilateral giant juvenile fibroadenomas of breast was made. She underw...

Background: Spontaneous infarction is an uncommon complication of fibroadenoma of the breast. Although infarction following fine needle aspiration (FNA) has been reported in the literature, infarction encountering on first time aspiration is very rare. Lack of knowledge of this entity may lead to an erroneous diagnosis of inflammatory lesion like mastitis and carcinoma on cytology smears. Case...

Fibroadenomas are the most common benign tumor of the br but the peak incidence seen in young adolescent women during the second and third decades of life. Fibroadenoma is a biphasic tumor, composed of an epithelial and a stromal component. Even though they are solitary lesions, multiple fibroadenomas can also occur especially in the older age group. Breast fibroadenomas seemed to display a wid...

The authors reviewed the fine-needle aspiration biopsy smears from 62 subjects with proven fibroadenoma, 60 subjects with proven ductal carcinoma, and 42 subjects with proven fibrocystic disease. All smears were coded as to the presence or absence of the following variables: epithelial cells, stroma, honeycomb sheets, antler horn clusters, naked nuclei, nucleoli, marked cellularity, foam cells,...

Introduction: Infarction is a very rare complication of fibroadenoma. Diagnosis such situation not easy. Case Presentation: 23-year-old woman with painful tumor the right breast mild erythema at periareolar region. Breast ultrasound shows heterogeneous lesion 31×30 mm, in retroareolar well-defined borders, and does present vascular flow inside. Antibiotic treatment was administered without impr...

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Juvenile fibroadenoma is a rare variant of fibroadenoma accounting for 4% of all fibroadeno...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com postmenopausal women, especially those receiving estrogen replacement therapy has been documented [3]. Giant (juvenile or cellular) fibroadenoma is a rare variant of fibroadenoma accounting for 0.5-2 per cent of all cases of fibroadenomas [4] and is characterized by its large size and rapid growth [5]. This subtype has been also been defined as fibr...