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Mohammad Nadeem1, Arshad H Malik, Amit Goyal
1Department of Surgery, Breast Unit, Yeovil District Hospital, Yeovil, Somerset, United Kingdom.
The Breast Journal
|March 3, 2006
Abstract:
We report a rare case of a breast lump in an 81-year-old woman. Initial investigations were inconclusive and excision biopsy of the lump was done. Histologically the mass proved to be a ganglion cyst. It is the only reported case of ectopic ganglion cyst in the literature that presented as a breast lump.
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