title: Giant breast hamartoma in a 41-year-old female: A case report and literature review.
abstract: Breast hamartoma is an uncommonly reported benign breast lesion of uncertain cause and pathogenesis. The diagnosis of breast hamartoma by a single method such as mammography, magnetic resonance imaging or sonography is inadequate. In the majority of cases, the breast hamartoma is excised a few years after it has occurred when it is not too big. In the present report, however, a particularly large lesion with a long history is described. Such a case has rarely been reported and shows the necessity of early surgery to reduce trauma as much as possible. Excision of hamartoma was successfully performed and an 11×9×3.5-cm tumor was completely excised. The present study also reviews the literature on breast hamartoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Xi'an Jiaotong University College of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, P.R. China; Department of Surgery, Tuberculosis Hospital of Shaanxi Province, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710100, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Zhi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710061, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Jianjun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: He
keywords: adipose; breast hamartoma; pseudoangiomatous stroma