background: lactating adenoma is a benign breast mass related to physiological changes during pregnancy and increased estrogen level. fibroadenoma and breast cancer should be considered in the differential diagnosis of this lesion. the purpose of this study was to report cases of lactating adenoma in breast cancer research center (bcrc) and review the relevant literature. methods: all patients ...

background: sonoelastography (se) is introduced as a complementary technique for ultrasoungraohy (us) to evaluate breast lesions. this method is based on tissue strain in response to compression and decompression. the current study was designed to investigate the diagnostic performance of se for differentiating between benign and malignant breast lesions methods: a total of 35 women with 45 bre...

absract idiopathic granulomatous mastitis is a rare, inflammatory, and benign breast disease characterized by non-caseating granulomata and microabscesses limited to breast lobules. this condition presents as a firm breast mass that is clinically and radiologically indistinguishable from breast cancer, or as multiple or recurrent abscesses, or mastitis in a young non-lactating woman. almost alw...

abstract background: evaluation of breast masses in women under 40 years old starts with a triple test score (tts) which is composed of clinical breast examination, mammography and fine needle aspiration. increased breast density in this age group decreases the sensitivity of mammography. so deciding whether to biopsy such nondiagnostic lesions or not is subject to challenge. breast masses up t...

results of the 133 breast lesions, 32 were malignant and 101 were benign. in the differentiation of benign and malignant lesions, conventional us resulted in sensitivity of 100 %, specificity of 43.0 %, ppv of 57.1 %, npv of 36.7 %, and accuracy of 100 %. regarding swe, the sensitivity, specificity, ppv, npv, and accuracy values based on emax were 84.4 %, 89.1 %, 71.1 %, 94.7 %, and 88.0 %, res...

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 in women. screening can reduce the rate of cancer and mortality. the aim of this study is description of screening programs about breast masses with clinical and para clinical examination. methods: this is a descriptive study on 952 women who had volunteered or were referred to tabriz behbood hospital during one-year period. data was collected...

abstractepidermal inclusion cysts are uncommon in the breast, but the consequences can besevere when these cysts occur in the breast parenchyma. here, we report two suchcases. the patient in case 1 was an 37-year-old woman with a 3-cm palpable mass inthe right breast. mammography revealed a round and smoothly outlined mass, whichindicated a benign tumor, and sonography showed an irregularly sha...

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...

conclusions our study revealed that patients with the diagnosis of breast cancer have greater bpe in comparison with control group. the results may be indicative for higher probability of developing breast cancer in patients with higher bpe. therefore, ce-mri could be a useful tool for breast cancer risk assessment. objectives background parenchymal enhancement (bpe) on contrast-enhanced magnet...