Abstract

Fibroadenoma of bilateral axillary ectopic breast tissue: A rare case report based on Orem’s Self Care theory

Highlights

  • Ectopic Breast Tissue (EBT) is still a condition seen as sporadic (2-5%), and it is often delayed and ignored due to lack of awareness, whereas it may be exposed to malignant diseases. it must be always kept in mind for differential diagnosis of an EBT

  • Let’s examine how we address the case and the problems of our case with nursing approaches according to the self-care theory of our patient who was admitted to the obstetrics and obstetric surgery due to birth and treated with the diagnosis of axillary EBT with fibroadenoma

  • The components of the nursing power which are the ability of the nurse to obtain valid and reliable information, decisionmaking and application ability, the desire to give nursing care, eliminating the deficiency, increasing the patient’s contribution with supportiveness and instructiveness, the continuity of performance, the ability to see different situations in the process of achieving the goal and integration competence were linked to the self-management competence of our case and increased the self-care power

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Summary

Objectives

In line with this theory, we aimed to evaluate the health of our patient, to organize the data, to analyze, to evaluate the attempts and to increase the self-efficacy towards solving the problems as outcome

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