background: primary leiomyosarcoma (lms) of the breast is a very rare neoplasm of the breast arising from the mesenchymal tissue. the clinical presentation of this entity simulates other benign and malignant lesions of mesenchymal tissue of the breast. case presentation: case 1: a 40-year-old female presented with a right-sided breast lump, which was suspected to be a malignant spindle cell tum...

intracystic carcinoma of the breast is a rare form of breast carcinoma. among all malignant breast tumors, this lesion has an incidence of 0.2-0.5%. these neoplasms have certain characteristic imaging findings which help to differentiate these lesions from other focal breast abnormalities. this report is on the case of a 48-year-old woman with a palpable, painless lump in her right breast. mamm...

Breast cancer is the most common type of malignant neoplasm affecting women. In Poland there are nearly 15 500 new cases of the disease and over 5200 deaths due to it observed annually. As it was necessary to provide those suffering from breast cancer with combined highly specialist treatment, it was required that separate units specialising in breast surgery be established. In Europe they are ...

Feline mammary neoplasm is the third most common neoplasm in domestic cats with most of these malignancies requiring early detection and aggressive therapy. For early diagnosis, invasive complementary methods are used; they include fine-needle aspiration, scraping of the ulcerated lesions, excisional biopsy and histopathology findings after mastectomy (Giménez et al., 2010). The use of conventi...

Breast cancer is the most common neoplasm among women in Poland and worldwide. Approximately 8000 die from breast each year. It second leading cause of cancer-related deaths Polish women, following lung cancer. This highly heterogeneous terms morphology as well molecular characteristics, it requires different therapeutic approaches. Several risk factors for have been identified, including genet...

Breast cancer (BC) is a malignant neoplasm characterized by abnormal cell growth of breast tissue in an uncontrolled pattern and their ability to infiltrate invade normal locally. Irisin plays important role the occurrence, development, metastasis different tumors. The aim this study evaluate changes serum levels irisin postmenopausal women compared with control group. Serum samples were collec...

Developmental anomalies of the breast are frequently observed in women. The most serious pathology is gigantomastia. This type of breast hypertrophy may be caused by hypersensitivity of the breast oestrogen and progesterone receptors, by disturbances of the normal balance of oestrogen and androgen hormones, by hyperthyroidism or by hormonal activity of the neoplasm. In most cases gigantomastia ...

Understanding of the anatomy of the axillary lymph nodes is important in diagnostic and treatment procedures for breast cancer. An interesting case is presented here of breast cancer without a breast tumour. The first symptom of the disease was lymphadenopathy of the axillary region. This kind of case is extremely rare in clinical practise (one case per 1-5 years) and constitutes a great proble...

Breast cancer is the most common malignant neoplasm in the world among women. As a result of the dissemination of population screening programmes, about half of non-metastatic breast cancers are now diagnosed at stage I. 10-15% of T1abN0 tumours over-express human epidermal growth factor (HER-2). These tumours have a globally excellent prognosis, however, treatment with chemotherapy and/or targ...

Acinic cell carcinoma (ACCA), a type of malignant epithelial neoplasm, tends to occur in the parotid gland, and is occasionally found within breast. Published literature regarding primary ACCA breast scarce, number reports may be fewer than 100. At present, full clinical details have not been published. As an extremely rare disorder, cannot definitively diagnosed depending on microscopic struct...