Giant Epidermal Cyst Mimicking Aggressive Fibromatosis of the Breast

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Emily Austin Smith Megan Barbara Wexelman

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Emily Austin
Department of Surgery, TriHealth- Good Samaritan Hospital, Ohio, USA

A B S T R A C T

Fibromatosis of the breast represents <0.02% of all breast tumors. Typically, fibromatosis is non-metastasizing but locally aggressive and is treated with surgical excision. We report a case of a nonagenarian requiring mastectomy for an epidermal inclusion cyst that diagnostically mimicked fibromatosis of the breast. She underwent diagnostic breast imaging for a period of almost two years to monitor the size of her breast tumor. However, in a six-month timeframe, her mass dramatically increased in size and was becoming symptomatic to the patient. The rapidly growing tumor was concerning for occult breast malignancy.

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Case Report and Review of the Literature

Publication history

Received: Tue 12, Jul 2022
Accepted: Tue 26, Jul 2022
Published: Tue 09, Aug 2022

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© 2023 Emily Austin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2022.08.04