Obesity obscuring breast cancer: A case
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Dr. Irving M. Ariel; Joseph Greenberg
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Article
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1977
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract There is normally a layer of fat in the breast between the parenchyma of the breast and the skin. This is frequently thin and does not preclude the palpation of a tumor mass which involves the breast parenchyma. In patients suffering from obesity this fat pad becomes much thicker and ob