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Cystosarcoma phyllodes of the breast: a clinicopathological study of 11 cases.

Eleven cases of phyllodes tumour were managed at a single institute over 12 years period. All patients were females, the mean age was 48 years, painless breast lump was the commonest presentation, the left breast was affected in (55%), the upper outer quadrant was the most commonly involved site (60%). Four cases were malignant and the remaining 7 were benign. The diagnostic accuracy rate of fine needle aspiration cytology and intraoperative frozen section was 17% and 37.5% respectively. Adequate treatment was wide local excision in benign cases and simple mastectomy in malignant tumour. At a mean follow-up of 37 months the local recurrence and distant metastasis rate was 27% and 9% respectively.

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