Hemangioma in the Male Breast

Abstract

We saw a 52-year-old Caucasian male in our breast care clinic. The patient had noticed a small mass in his right breast for the past couple of months without any symptoms. After undergoing several diagnostic tests, the diagnosis was a breast hemangioma. This is a rare finding in male patients, and only a couple of cases have been described before.

Incidental Asymptomatic Breast Hemangioma in a 69-Year-Old Man: A Case Report

“…2,6 On ultrasound, hemangiomas are commonly seen as hypoechoic and lobulated masses with or without vascular flow. 7 Internal echotexture can be homogeneous or heterogeneous, depending on the presence of phleboliths or microcalcifications. 5 On magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a hemangioma presents as an isointense mass on T1-weighted images and as a hyperintensity with cystic spaces on T2weighted images.…”

Hemangioma of a Male Breast: Case Report and Review of the Literature

“…To the best of our knowledge, the first case report of hemangioma in the male breast was described in “Cancer Research” by Dr. Johnston from University of Maryland in 1936 [15] and, only 10 male breast hemangiomas have been reported in the English literature and available on PubMed search using keywords “male,” “breast,” and “hemangioma” [4–13,22]. An additional 4 publications were found in Google Scholar, which presented similar cases of male breast hemangiomas [14–17]. The clinicopathologic features of these cases, in addition to our case, are summarized in Table 1.…”

“…Surgical excision with pathological examination revealed 13 cavernous hemangiomas and 2 capillary hemangiomas. Six case reports did not provide descriptions of the specific subtypes of the hemangiomas, but based on the histological descriptions and figures presented, we categorized 5 cases as cavernous type [7,10,12,15,17], and the other case as capillary type [9]. Most of the cavernous hemangiomas were associated with a gross appearance of a brown to dark red hemorrhagic tumor with spongy consistency.…”

“…Breast hemangiomas are benign vascular lesions that occur in breast parenchyma [2]. Although breast hemangiomas are well described in female patients [3], male breast hemangiomas are exceptionally rare, and only 14 cases have been previously reported [4–17]. In this case report, we describe an unusual breast hemangioma in an octogenarian male patient.…”