Infarcted Fibroadenoma of the Breast: Difficulties in Diagnosis

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Eduardo González Bosquet Paulino Sousa Carlota Rovira

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Eduardo González Bosquet
Department Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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Introduction: Infarction is a very rare complication of fibroadenoma. Diagnosis of such a situation is not easy. Case Presentation: 23-year-old woman with a painful tumor of the right breast with mild erythema at the periareolar region. Breast ultrasound shows a heterogeneous lesion of 31×30 mm, in the retroareolar right breast with well-defined borders, and does not present vascular flow inside. Antibiotic treatment was administered without improvement. The breast ultrasound was repeated with no significant changes. Surgical removal of a well-encapsulated cystic lesion was performed. The patient was discharged the same day of surgery, and her postoperative evolution was correct. Histopathologic evaluation revealed an infarcted fibroadenoma. Conclusion: Breast ultrasound could be very useful in the diagnosis of infarcted fibroadenoma; treatment consists of local excision of the lesion.

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Received: Wed 08, Jun 2022
Accepted: Wed 22, Jun 2022
Published: Thu 30, Jun 2022

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© 2023 Eduardo González Bosquet. 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.2022.06.04