breast sarcomas have relatively been rare and accounted for 1% of all primary malignant tumors of the breast. pure and primary chondrosarcoma of the male breast would be an extremely rare tumor. it might arise either from the breast stroma itself, or from underlying bone or cartilage. a 65-year-old man has presented with a rapidly growing breast mass since 5 months. physical examination has est...

background: modified radical mastectomy (mrm) is still one of globally accepted surgical techniques for breast cancer and in some selected patient is the gold standard type of surgery. the most frequent complication of this procedure is seroma under skin flaps or in the axilla as reported as much as 30% in some studies. the use of closed suction drainage system to reduce the incidence of this c...

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...

background: modified radical mastectomy (mrm), as a surgical treatment in breast cancer patients, may lead to important complications with significant morbidities including seroma formation. in this study, we used topical phenytoin to evaluate its impact on breast and axillary wound drainage and seroma formation after mrm. methods: in a double-blinded randomized clinical trial, patients with br...

This brief review defines the various surgical procedures for breast cancer, which are under dispute by laymen and some surgeons, because of lack of controlled comparative studies and differences in classification of stages of breast cancer. The simplest procedure, tylectomy or lumpectomy, consists of resection of the local lesion only. Simple mastectomy refers to removal of the involved mamm...

BACKGROUND In women with breast cancer, the role of radical mastectomy, as compared with less extensive surgery, has been a matter of debate. We report 25-year findings of a randomized trial initiated in 1971 to determine whether less extensive surgery with or without radiation therapy was as effective as the Halsted radical mastectomy. METHODS A total of 1079 women with clinically negative a...

Objective: This study aims to examine the combined effects of laryngeal mask inhalation anesthesia and epidural anesthesia on stress hormones and immune factors of radical mastectomy patients. Method: A total of 68 patients who underwent radical mastectomy from February 2015 to January 2017 participated in the study. They were divided into the control group (trachea cannula combined with tradit...

breast reconstruction (br) surgery is not common for the treatment of breast cancer in low- and middle-income countries, including iran. we evaluated the quality of life (qol) in iranian breast cancer patients who underwent br at the cancer institute of iran. we compared patients who had br with breast cancer patients who had a radical mastectomy as the control group, matched for age, and time ...

The first operation for a breast cancer patient was performed in the early nineteenth century in Wakayama (1804.11.14), Japan. This operation was performed by Seishu Hanaoka, a Japanese doctor, using general anesthesia [1]. The general anesthetic agent used was called Tsusen-san, which was an extract of Datura metel. This might have been the first breast cancer operation under general anesthesi...