CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF PHYLLODES TUMORS OF THE BREAST

Forty-seven cases of phyllodes tumor of the breast (resected and diagosed pathologicaly at this hospital from 1994 to August 1997) were evaluated clinicopathologically. Thirty-nine patients were classified as benign, 5 as borderline and 3 as malignant. Eighty-one percent of all tumors found were 5cm or less in diameter, and 38 tumors were 2cm or less in diameter. In this study, no clinical findings characteristic of benign or malignant tumors were identified. Some tumors needed to be differentiated from breast cancer. If an adequate surgical margin can be achieved, it would appear that local excision is an acceptable form of primary surgical treatment