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Obesity obscuring breast cancer: A case report

✍ Scribed by Dr. Irving M. Ariel; Joseph Greenberg

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1977
Tongue
English
Weight
327 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-4790

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✦ Synopsis

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 obscures any underlying masses arising from the breast parenchyma. A case is reported in which a woman who was markedly obese lost a significant amount of weight and presented a bulge which was found to be carcinoma. This situation, in which fat obscures underlying breast lesion, has been observed in a number of patients. Attention is called to the limited value of physical examination of the breast in markedly obese patients. If any suspicion exists or if the patient is a candidate for cancer from a familial standpoint, mammograms are indicated.

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