background: breast cancer is the most common type of malignancy in the female population, rarely is reported by thromboembolic events during the course of the disease. in this case, we present a rare case of breast cancer presenting as deep vein thrombosis of the axillary vein.case presentation: a 40-year- old female was admitted due to pain and swelling of her right arm and forearm of two mont...

there is a relationship between infant feeding method and maternal postpartum depression (ppd). this study was carried out in an iranian population to compare the prevalence of ppd symptoms between breast feeding and non-breast feeding mothers for first time.four health centers in ahvas were selected by random sampling in 2009. at first 78 non-breast feeding mothers at two months postpartum wer...

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abstract background breast carcinoma is uncommon in women under 25 and very rare in less than 20 years old. only few cases of infiltrating breast carcinoma have been reported and among them there was no report of medullary subtype. the purpose of this report is to determine clinical, histopathological and sonographic findings of large mass in breast of young female patient that diagnosed as med...

breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death in female, after lung cancer. angiogenesis is essential for tumor growth and metastasis; therefore, antiangiogenesis strategies for treatment of cancer are currently an issue of interest. the role of vascular endothelial growth factor that assumed to be most potent angiogenesis factor is ambiguous in breast cancer. this study descri...

fibroadenoma is the most common benign mass of breast in females 20-50 years of age. juvenile fibroadenoma accounts for only 4% of total fibroadenomas. moreover, the incidence of giant juvenile fibroadenoma is found to be only 0.5% of all fibroadenomas. a 15-year-old woman at the 12th week of gestation was referred to the shahid sadoughi hospital, yazd, iran because of a mass in the right breas...

background: breast cancer is the most common cancer found in women, and screening is the best way to make an early diagnosis. the aim of this study was to determine the rate of screening mammography and related variables in the mammography center of mousavi hospital, located in zanjan, iran. methods: this was a prospective descriptive study. study sample size was 526 women who were selected by ...

background: electrochemotherapy is a relatively new technique in the treatment of skin metastases that are not amenable to conventional therapy. its use in breast cancer is now established in many european centers. methods: published literature of electrochemotherapy in terms of its scientific basis, current clinical practice of breast cancer treatment providers, as well as the future direction...

sarcomas account for less than 1% of all primary breast malignancies, pleomorphic sarcoma of the breast being even rarer. we present two cases of pleomorphic sarcoma of the breast in a 35-year-old and a 43-year-old female. an extensive review of the available literature with evaluation of the etiology, changing terminologies and histopathologic features of pleomorphic sarcoma of the breast are ...