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Giant Juvenile Fibroadenoma Of The Breast In A 13-Year-Old Pakistani Girl With Excellent Cosmetic Outcome After Subareolar Enucleation - A Case Report, Sana Zeeshan, Kulsoom Shaikh, Muhammad Usman Tariq, Lubna Mushtaque Vohra
Giant Juvenile Fibroadenoma Of The Breast In A 13-Year-Old Pakistani Girl With Excellent Cosmetic Outcome After Subareolar Enucleation - A Case Report, Sana Zeeshan, Kulsoom Shaikh, Muhammad Usman Tariq, Lubna Mushtaque Vohra
Department of Surgery
Introduction: Fibroadenoma is the most common benign lesion of breast in young women, characterized by an aberrant proliferation of both epithelial and mesenchymal elements. It is termed giant fibroadenoma when it is larger than 5 cm or weighs more than 500 g with an incidence of 0.5-2% of all fibroadenomas.
Presentation of case: In this report, we discuss a case of a 13-year-old Pakistani girl who presented with a giant juvenile fibroadenoma in left breast and was treated by a subareolar lump excision through a periareolar incision with excellent cosmetic outcome. To the best of our literature search, this is …