Tuberculosis of the breast masquerading as breast cancer
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A 57-year-old female from Ghana was found to have fungating breast lesion and treated for breast cancer with empirical chemotherapy in her home country. On presentation to our breast surgical department in the UK, triple assessment and core biopsy showed the fungating mass to be a caseating granuloma in keeping with Tuberculosis infection.
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دوره 2012 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2012