introduction giant fibroadenoma is a rare disease with unknown etiology. during pregnancy, fibroadenomas increase in size and may show lactational histologic changes. high concentrations of estrogen, progesterone, and prolactin promote the ductal growth and formation of tubuloalveolar structures. this may be a reason for the significant enlargement in this period. case presentation we presented...

phyllodes tumors account for less than 1% of breast tumors in women. giant phyllodes tumors are larger than 10 cm in diameter. a 40-year-old lady presented with a left breast lump that was present for two years. she underwent a simple mastectomy. the tumor was 30×26×21 cm in size, weighed 15 kg and had a density of 0.915 gr/cm3. we believe this patient had the third largest breast phyllodes tum...

Phyllodes tumors are biphasic fibroepithelial neoplasms of the breast. While the surgical management of these relatively uncommon tumors has been addressed in the literature, few reports have commented on the surgical approach to tumors greater than ten centimetres in diameter – the giant phyllodes tumor. We report a case of giant breast tumors and discuss the techniques utilized for pre-...

Phyllodes tumor is an uncommon fibro epithelial breast tumor with diverse biological behavior. The tumor closely resemble as fibroadenoma of the breast. On one end phyllodes is slow growing benign tumor, the other end tumor grows rapidly behave like sarcoma which metastasizes, and phyllodes can turn to frank sarcoma. Tumor can be diagnosed on clinical basis i.e. large mass with lobulated (bosse...

INTRODUCTION Originally described in 1838 by Muller, phyllodes tumor is a rare fibroepithelial neoplasm which represents roughly 0.3-0.9% of all breast cancers. Phyllodes tumor are divided into benign, borderline and malignant histologic categories. Malignant phyllodes tumor represent anywhere from 10-30% of all phyllodes tumors. This group has both the potential to recur locally and metastasiz...

Fibroepithelial lesions (FELs) are a common histologic finding on core needle biopsy (CNB) of the breast. Fibroepithelial lesions include fibroadenoma and phyllodes tumor, which can be difficult to distinguish with an initial CNB. An institutional experience was reviewed from February 12, 2001, to January 4, 2007, to determine the safety of selective rather than routine excision of FELs and to ...

phyllodes tumors are biphasic fibroepithelial neoplasms of the breast. while the surgical management of these relatively uncommon tumors has been addressed in the literature, few reports have commented on the surgical approach to tumors greater than ten centimetres in diameter – the giant phyllodes tumor. we report a case of giant breast tumors and discuss the techniques utilized for pre-operat...

background: phyllodes tumor (pt) of the breast in hispanic patients is more frequently reported with large tumors and with more borderline/malignant subtypes compared with other populations. the objective of this study was to describe characteristics of patients with pt and to identify differences among subtypes in a mexican population.  methods: a retrospective study was conducted on patients ...

There have been some reports of coincidental presentation of breast carcinoma and phyllodes tumor in the same breast. Most of the cases were carcinoma that arose from a phyllodes tumor with a histologically identified transitional area, and they behaved less aggressively than the usually encountered carcinoma. Collision tumors are rare clinical entities in which two histologically distinct tumo...

Malignant phyllodes tumor is a rare tumor of the breast occurring in females usually between the ages of 35 and 55 years. It is often difficult to distinguish benign from malignant phyllodes tumors from other benign entities such as fibroadenomas. This case presentation demonstrates a woman with malignant phyllodes tumor treated with mastectomy with abdominal skin flap reconstruction.