Wandering humeral head mimicking a breast mass

Med J Malaysia. 2008 Jun;63(2):164-5.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Breast Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Choristoma / diagnosis
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Humerus*
  • Shoulder Dislocation / complications*
  • Shoulder Fractures / complications*