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Cavernous haemangioma of breast in a man with contralateral gynaecomastia and a family history of breast carcinoma
Author(s) -
SHOUSHA S.,
THEODOROU N. A.,
BULL T. B.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
histopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.626
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1365-2559
pISSN - 0309-0167
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2559.1988.tb02027.x
Subject(s) - medicine , carcinoma , lung , breast carcinoma , sister , uterus , general surgery , gynecology , breast cancer , cancer , sociology , anthropology
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.