Background and Objectives Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is a chronic inflammatory lesion that mimics the clinical symptoms of carcinoma. Another type immunological mastitis, which related to infiltration IgG4 plasma cells. This study aims determine status positive cells in IGM samples. Subjects Methods an analytical-cross-sectional study. 46 women diagnosed with were selected for usin...

Granulomatous mastitis is a recently described, rare condition of unknown aetiology. It occurs in young, parous women as a tender extra-areolar breast lump and therefore needs to be differentiated from carcinoma. Histologically, a discrete granulomatous lobulitis is seen and because of morphological similarities to granulomatous thyroiditis it has been suggested it may be immunologically mediat...

Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis: A Disease Mimics Breast Cancer Appearing In Pregnancy. Purpose: Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is a rare and chronic inflammatory disease. It is more common with autoimmune diseases, pregnancy and lactation periods, oral contraceptive (OKS) users and hyperprolactinemia cases. IGM mimics breast cancer regarding its clinical and radiological features. I...