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Coronary artery bypass grafting using the left internal mammary artery can lead to the extremely rare complication of left breast necrosis, which may be misdiagnosed as breast cancer.
Case Report (n=1)
Left breast necrosis is an extremely rare complication of CABG using the left internal mammary artery that can be misdiagnosed as breast cancer.
Consider left breast necrosis in post-LIMA CABG breast lesions; single case leaves open incidence and management.
We present a case of left breast necrosis following coronary artery bypass grafting which was misdiagnosed as a breast cancer. Breast necrosis after myocardial revascularization is an extremely rare complication of the surgical procedure using the most conventional graft which is the left internal mammary artery. The left internal mammary artery is the main blood supplying artery of the left breast.
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Bintoudi et al. (2011) conducted a case report in Breast necrosis following coronary artery bypass grafting (n=1). Coronary artery bypass grafting using the left internal mammary artery was evaluated on Left breast necrosis. Coronary artery bypass grafting using the left internal mammary artery can lead to the extremely rare complication of left breast necrosis, which may be misdiagnosed as breast cancer.
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