Spontaneous Infarction of Multiple Fibroadenoma in a Postlactational Woman: Case Report

Fibroadenoma is a frequent benign breast lesion among women in fertile age. It may manifest as synchronous or asynchronous multiple nodules although not often. Total infarction has rarely been reported in fibroadenoma where the vast majority are infarctions that develop following fine needle aspiration. Spontaneous infarctions reported in the literature are few and develop in 0.5-1.5 of all fibroadenomas and especially during pregnancy or lactation. As it is a rare entity, it may be confused with inflammatory diseases and necrotic carcinomas of the breast both clinically and with limited pathological methods like fine needle aspiration cytology, needle biopsy, and frozen section. In this paper, we reported findings of spontaneous infarction in multiple fibroadenoma in a 19-year-old postlactational woman. The case was worth presenting because infarction had developed in more than one fibroadenoma spontaneously.