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Image of the Month—Quiz Case
Somprakas Basu, MS;
Vaibhav Saxena, MBBS;
C. L. N. Sharma, MS;
Mohan Kumar, MD
Arch Surg. 2008;143(2):207.
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INTRODUCTION
A woman, aged 30 years, presented with a complaint of a lump, which she had had for 1 year, in her right breast. Initially, the lump was slow growing; however, for the past 4 months, the growth had become rapid, coinciding with her pregnancy of the same duration. It developed into a painful ulceroproliferative growth. There was no history of trauma, radiation exposure, or surgery, and she denied having any family history of a similar disease. An examination revealed a massive fleshy ulceroproliferative growth of 15 x 17 cm in the para-areolar region of her right breast (Figure). It was firm, not fixed to muscle or chest wall, friable, and bled to the touch; it had everted edges. The ulcerated areas were covered with slough and produced foul-smelling discharge. The ipsilateral axilla contained a . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Author Affiliations: Departments of General Surgery and Pathology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
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