Bloody Aggressive: A Case Report on a Fungating Breast Mass in a Paraplegic Requiring Emergency Mastectomy.
emergency mastectomy
fungating breast mass
hemorrhage
infiltrating ductal carcinoma
Journal
Cureus
ISSN: 2168-8184
Titre abrégé: Cureus
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101596737
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Oct 2020
15 Oct 2020
Historique:
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Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Fungating malignant lesions pose a huge deal of agony to the patients. Their management is also deemed as difficult by most physicians. This report describes a case of a 45-year-old paraplegic female with delayed presentation of a very aggressive fungating left breast mass, which was diagnosed as invasive ductal carcinoma. The uncontrollable hemorrhage had the surgeons succumb to the option of emergency mastectomy as a palliative treatment to save the life of the patient. Hence, we infer that the emergency mastectomy in a hemorrhagic fungating breast lesion can be life-saving and can be performed with little to no risk to the patient. Such a procedure, surprisingly, has never been documented in the surgical literature before.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33209515
doi: 10.7759/cureus.10952
pmc: PMC7667621
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Pagination
e10952Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020, Sabir et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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