BACKGROUND Subareolar breast abscess (SBA) is a rare infectious disease of the breast in male patients. CASE PRESENTATION Herein, we report two male patients with SBA. Patient 1 was initially diagnosed with a malignant tumor based on imaging findings; ultrasonography revealed a hypoechoic mass with blood flow. Patient 2 was diagnosed with inflammatory changes to his nipple; ultrasonography fi...

AIM Evaluation of ultrasonographic and mammographic pattern, etiology and risk factors of breast infections. MATERIAL AND METHODS Our study included a group of 66 female patients aged 16 to 71 years, examined by ultrasound and mammography in several medical imaging services in Iaşi in the interval 2008-2014; ultrasound was performed in all 66 patients and mammography in 22. RESULTS In our s...

A 45-year-old nonlactating female presented to the emergency department (ED) fast-track area with a chief complaint of breast pain associated with redness. The symptoms occurred over a period of weeks. There were no constitutional symptoms of fever, chills, or weight loss. The patient had no known personal or family history of breast cancer. On physical examination, there was a 6by 3-cm conflue...

Tuberculous mastitis is a rare clinical entity and usually affects women from the Indian sub-continent and Africa. It often mimics breast carcinoma and pyogenic breast abscess clinically and radiologically, may both co-exist. Routine laboratory investigations are not helpful in its diagnosis. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) / biopsy are essential for diagnosis and tuberculosis culture wh...

Breasts are one of the secondary sexual characteristics in females. They rout for nutrition & growing infant till 4-6 months age. Breast diseases most common females any society. Multiple types benign breast lesions like fibroadenomas, simple cyst, abscess, lymph nodes enlargement and different malignancies pathologies breast. Up to 30% women suffer from disease at time their life this comp...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a very old disease, and tuberculosis bacilli have co-existed with humans as far back as 5000 BC, according to studies of the spine TB lesions (Pott’s disease) from Egyptian mummies. TB continues to be a frequent cause of mortality and morbidity, with an incidence rate of 150 cases per 100,000 people in 2005. Currently, one person becomes newly infected every second worldwid...