Male breast cancer treated by wide resection and latissimus dorsi flap: a case report

A 62-year-old Caucasian male presented at the certified Breast Cancer Center with a newly diagnosed large, symptomatic mass in the left breast. Clinical examination showed a not movable mass of 16 cm diameter, deforming the whole breast; the overlying skin was livid and hypervascularized. Enlarged lymph nodes were palpable in the axillary pit. He had no concomitant diseases at time of presentation; his previous surgeries included circumcision as a child and he was a nonsmoker. He denied any first- or second degree family medical history of cancer of any type and he never received radiotherapy. At ultrasound, the…