Introduction: Adenomyoepithelioma of the breast is a rare benign breast neoplasm with a particular behaviour.
Presentation Of Cases: We report two cases of adenomyoepithelioma of the breast in two old female patients, diagnosed over a period of 5 years. The clinical presentation, the radiological and the histopathologic findings are discussed.
Introduction: Contralateral axillary lymph node metastases (CAMs) in patients with breast cancer are rare (Daoud et al., 1998); however, CAMs may be already detected at the time of primary breast cancer diagnosis (synchronous CAM) or after a previous treatment of breast cancer as a recurrence if not as an ipsilateral breast recurrence (IBR) (metasynchronous CAM) (Zhou and Richir, 2013). The involvement of the contralateral axilla could be caused by a systemic disease (stage IV), a regional metastasis from a new occult primary tumor (T0N1, stage II) or a breast cancer recurrence It may also arise from a locally advanced disease in a patient who has suffered from a primary breast cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: to describe the prevalence of breastfeeding in Sicily Region (Southern Italy) and to analyze the socioeconomic status and other major risk factors on the attitudes towards exclusive breastfeeding.
Design: information on the practice of breastfeeding in Sicily have been collected from a Regional survey on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). An index of socioeconomic position was created by using data from the 2011 Census of the Italian National Institute of Statistics.
Introduction: Our work has been reported in line with the SCARE criteria [21]. Mammary tuberculosis (TM) is an extremely rare condition (Khanna et al., 2000 [1]).
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