title: Cavernous haemangioma of breast in a man with contralateral gynaecomastia and a family history of breast carcinoma.
abstract: A 73-year-old man with a cavernous haemangioma of the right breast is presented. The patient had had gynaecomastia of the left breast 8 years earlier. Prior to that he had been on cimetidine for 2 years. The patient's mother and sister had breast carcinomas, while two other sisters and a brother had carcinomas of kidney, uterus and lung respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Histopathology, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shousha
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Theodorou
authors.forename: T B
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Bull
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D006177:Gynecomastia / Q000150:complications*; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male