Unilateral galactocele in a male infant

Aleksandar Vlahović; Slaviša M. Djuričić; Sladjana Todorović

doi:10.2298/3906

Aleksandar Vlahović Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Mother and Child Health Care Institute of Serbia „Dr Vukan Čupić”, Belgrade, Serbia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Slaviša M. Djuričić Department of Clinical Pathology, Mother and Child Health Care Institute of Serbia „Dr Vukan Čupić”, Belgrade,Serbia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sladjana Todorović Department of Endocrinology, Mother and Child Health Care Institute of Serbia „Dr Vukan Čupić”, Belgrade, Serbia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2298/3906

Keywords: breast neoplasms, child, preschool, diagnosis, histolog-ical techniques, magnetic resonance imaging,

Abstract

Introduction. Galactocele, generally occuring in young women during or after lactation, is an extremely rare cause of breast enlargement in infants and children of exclusively male gender. Only 26 cases have been published so far, including two our cases. Case report. We described unilateral, cystic, breast enlargement, without any endocrinologic and other abnormalities in a 29-month-old boy. A typical clinical and histopathologic presentation of galactocele was followed with a complete excision. Conclusion. This was a 27th well documented case of galactocele in a male infant with typical clinical and histopathologic presentation. There are several hypotheses regarding etiology of the lesion, but it is likely to be multifactorial. Because of its extreme rarity, there are some difficulties in differential diagnosis and treatment options of galactocele in male infants.

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