Oula Fouad Hameed

Department of Oral Diagnosis, College of Dentistry, University of Basrah, Iraq

Publications

• Case Report   
  Malignant phyllodes tumour with lymph node metastasis
  Author(s): Oula Fouad Hameed* and Zainab Abdulkareem Maktoof
  
  A 35-year-old woman presented with a left breast mass which was suspected to be a fibroadenoma, excision was done. The tumor size was approximately 6 cm. The histopathological diagnosis was borderline phyllodes tumor. After that, the tumor re-cure 2 times within a short period and the last rapid recurrence within 3 months from the last excision and reaching a large size of 8 cm infiltrating most of the breast. In ultrasonography, there was a swelling of the left axillary lymph nodes. So, mastectomy with axillary lymph nodes excision was performed. The malignant nature of the tumor and the metastasis to the lymph node were confirmed by the pathological examination of the specimens. A few days later a chest CT scan revealed pulmonary nodules. Thus, in this report, we present a case of a malignant phyllodes tumor with an extremely rare lymph node metastasis, which shows later pulmonary m.. Read More»
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