Breast within a breast: a review of breast hamartomas.
A 22-year-old woman who presented with a large lump in the left breast, subsequently found to be a breast hamartoma, is described. A full review is given of this rare and unusual benign breast lesion, which is likely to be recognised increasingly with the advent of mammographic screening.
Paraskevopoulos
J A
JA
University Department of Surgery, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield.
Hosking
S W
SW
Stephenson
T
T
D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006222:Hamartoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans