Five-Year Disease-Free Follow-Up of a Borderline Breast Phyllodes Tumor in a 15-year-old Patient.
Phyllodes tumors are large breast tumors representing only 1% of breast neoplasms and are rarely seen in young women. Histologically, phyllodes tumors are classified as benign, borderline, or malignant based on the characteristics of the stroma. Although wide local excision is recommended for the treatment modality, the reoccurrence rate after surgical excision varies between 36% and 65%, with recurrence more likely in those with the tumor at the margins of excision. Our aim was to report -a case in a 15-year-old girl with a 115-mm borderline phyllodes tumor in her left breast mimicking a juvenile fibroadenoma. We presented a 5-year disease-free follow-up after wide local excision with negative margins.
Department of General Surgery, Kocaeli University Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli, Turkey.
Sertaç Ata
SA
Güler
Department of General Surgery, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.
M Ümit
MÜ
Uğurlu
Department of General Surgery, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.
Bahadır M
BM
Güllüoğlu
Phyllodes tumor; breast; recurrence