Wandering humeral head mimicking a breast mass.
- Author:
Gerald J S Tan
;
Andrew G S Tan
;
Wilfred C G Peh
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Mass in breast;
Head;
Mass, NOS;
Wandering;
Breast
- From:
The Medical journal of Malaysia
2008;63(2):164-5
- CountryMalaysia
- Language:Malay
-
Abstract:
A 74-year-old woman was incidentally found to have a left breast mass. The mass could not be adequately compressed to be visualized on mammography. Ultrasonography showed a heavily-calcified rounded mass in the left axillary tail of the left breast. Chest radiograph confirmed that the mass was a migrated humeral head. Remotely-displaced fracture-dislocations of the humeral head are very rare and to our knowledge, displacement into the breast, clinically mimicking a breast mass, has not been previously described.
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