Fibroadenoma of the breast in a man associated with adenocarcinoma of the rectum and polyposis coli

Adıbelli, Zehra Hilal; Ozan, Enver; Öztekin, Özgür; Kucukzeybek, Betul Bolat

doi:10.5334/jbr-btr.29

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“…Fibroadenomas in men without hormone treatment and with normal hormone levels are extremely rare. There is a report of single case of a man who had a fibroadenoma of the breast, gynecomastia, adenocarcinoma of the rectum, and polyposis coli, in which, the causative agent of the fibroadenoma was unknown and the development mechanism of the breast fibroadenoma was under question (16). Similarly, in all our cases, the patients did not have any causative factors as theorized until today and remains to be idiopathic.…”

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Fibroadenoma in the male breast: Truth or Myth?

Agarwal¹,

Kohli²

2016

UCD

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Truth or myth is seldom encountered in the practice of surgery, especially in cases of breast diseases. Yet, even after thousands of years of treating breast disease by surgeons/healers, fibroadenoma in the male breast seems to be a myth, due to the absence of fibro-glandular tissue. We wish to break this myth by our own experience as well as other studies by others all over the world, and unveil the truth that fibroadenoma in the male breast is a definitive entity and has a prevalence among the vast spectrum of breast diseases.

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Fibroadenoma in the male breast: Truth or Myth?

Agarwal¹,

Kohli²

2016

UCD

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“…2 There appears to have been approximately only 15 cases of male fibroadenoma reported in the English literature to date (Table 1). [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] It has been suggested that proliferative changes in the male breast, such as gynecomastia and fibroepithelial lesions, are caused by hormonal imbalances or medications not primarily intended to target the breast. Fibroadenomas are known to have both estrogen and progesterone receptors, 11 and most of the reported male fibroadenomas have occurred in male-to-female transgender patients or patients receiving estrogen therapy for a medical condition such as prostate carcinoma.…”

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Fibroadenoma in a young male breast: A case report and review of the literature

Morikawa

Nobuoka

Amitani

et al. 2021

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“…Most published reports describe phyllodes tumors. Fibroadenomas are very common in female breasts, but are exceedingly rare in the male breast (17). Gynecomastia and/or lobular differentiation have been known to co‐exist in both types of fibroepithelial lesions in men (18).…”

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Imaging Characteristics of Male Breast Disease

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The purpose of the study was to describe the imaging findings of male breast disease. One hundred and sixty-four male patients, who underwent mammography and ultrasonography (US) between January 1999 and December 2008, were retrospectively evaluated. Seventy-five patients (46%) underwent biopsy, and 89 patients (54%) were diagnosed radiologically. The radiologic and pathologic diagnoses in 164 cases of this series were 13 cancers (8%), including one ipsilateral and one contralateral breast cancers, 147 cases of gynecomastia (90%), one fibroadenoma (0.6%), two cases of fibrocystic disease of the breast (1.2%), and one epidermoid inclusion cyst (0.6%). Three mammographic patterns were adequate to describe all 147 cases of gynecomastia in our series: 53 patients (36%) had nodular gynecomastia, 46 patients (31%) had dendritic gynecomastia, and 48 patients (33%) had diffuse gynecomastia. Gynecomastia was unilateral in 65% of cases (n=95), and bilateral in 35% of cases (n=52). On physical examination, two of the malignant lesions had no clinic features of malignancy (15%). On mammography, 11 of 13 malignant masses were demonstrated (85%). A mass with microcalcifications was seen on mammograms in one case (9%). The contours of the masses were irregular in nine cases (82%), well-circumscribed in two cases (18%). The location of the masses was retroareolar in seven cases (64%) and eccentric to the nipple in four cases (36%). The size of the masses varied between 0.5 cm and 5 cm (mean 2.4 cm). Nipple retraction was evident in five cases (45%), and skin thickening in four cases (36%). All of the malignant masses were demonstrated on ultrasound; however, one of them was seen retrospectively after mammography. All of the masses were hypoechoic and solid, the contours were well-defined and smooth in two masses (15%), and irregular in 11 masses (85%), and five masses (39%) had posterior prominent shadowing. Axillary lymphadenopathia was detected in two cases (15%). One patient had a previous contralateral breast cancer, and one had an ipsilateral. On mammography, breast cancer characteristically exhibits an irregular subareolar mass, nipple retraction, and skin ulceration or thickening, but sometimes breast cancer has a well-circumscribed contour and punctuated microcalcifications. Ultrasonography is essential and useful for further characterization and helpful for demonstrating lymphadenopathies of the axillary region.

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Fibroadenoma of the breast in a man associated with adenocarcinoma of the rectum and polyposis coli

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

Fibroadenoma in the male breast: Truth or Myth?

Fibroadenoma in the male breast: Truth or Myth?

Fibroadenoma in a young male breast: A case report and review of the literature

Imaging Characteristics of Male Breast Disease

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