Puneet Agarwal, Gaurav Kohli

Department of General Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, India

Abstract

Truth or myth is seldom encountered in the practice of surgery, especially in cases of breast diseases. Yet, even after thousands of years of treating breast disease by surgeons/healers, fibroadenoma in the male breast seems to be a myth, due to the absence of fibro-glandular tissue. We wish to break this myth by our own experience as well as other studies by others all over the world, and unveil the truth that fibroadenoma in the male breast is a definitive entity and has a prevalence among the vast spectrum of breast diseases.

Keywords: Male, breast, fibroadenoma, tumour, benign lesion


 

Peer Review

Externally peer-reviewed.

Author Contributions

Concept – P.A.; Design – P.A.; Supervision – P.A.; Resources – P.A.; Materials – P.A.; Data Collection and/or Processing – P.A.; Analysis and/or Interpretation – P.A.; Literature Search – G.K.; Writing Manuscript – P.A.; Critical Review – G.K.; Other – P.A.

Conflict of Interest

No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.

Financial Disclosure

The authors declared that this study has received no financial support.