title: Benign schwannoma of the breast: report of a case.
abstract: We report herein the case of a 62-year-old woman who presented to our hospital for investigation of occasional pain in her left breast. Although there was no mass palpable in her left breast, mammography and ultrasonography revealed a round tumor in the upper outer quadrant of the right breast. Although the mammography findings indicated that the tumor was benign, the possibility of a malignant neoplasm could not be ruled out by the ultrasonographic images. A final diagnosis of schwannoma was established by histopathological examination of the excised mass.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Kumamoto University, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tokita
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suko
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arase
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D015412:Mastectomy, Segmental; D008875:Middle Aged; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014463:Ultrasonography