title: A case of breast cholesterol granuloma accompanied by cancer.
abstract: Cholesterol granuloma of the breast is a very rare benign disease with clinical and imaging features that are often indistinguishable from cancer preoperatively. We report a case of breast cholesterol granuloma accompanied by cancer. The patient was a 78-year-old woman who complained of a lump in her right breast. Mammography and ultrasonography showed a well-circumscribed mass. Fine needle aspiration cytology showed many cholesterol crystals and inflammatory cells without malignancy. With a diagnosis of cholesterol granuloma, tumor extirpation was performed. Histopathologic examination revealed cholesterol granuloma together with breast cancer, and additional partial mastectomy was subsequently performed. It is noted that breast cholesterol granuloma could be accompanied by cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery and Oncology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
authors.forename: Chizu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Furuhira
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ohshima
authors.forename: Kazuo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shimada
authors.forename: Syoji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kuroki
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.forename: Mikimasa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.forename: Hidetaka
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Masao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D002784:Cholesterol; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D015745:Granuloma, Foreign-Body / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D015412:Mastectomy, Segmental
chemical_list: D002784:Cholesterol