BACKGROUND Breast tuberculosis (breast TB) is an extremely rare disease, so case reviews are also rare. METHODS This study is a retrospective review of patients with breast TB who were treated between 2002 and 2012 at the Health Center of Gorgan City. RESULTS All 22 patients were females, their mean age was 32.4 years, and all were new cases. Patients presented with swelling of the breast (...

A review of the literature reveals uniform acceptance of the fact that a relatively large percentage of tuberculosis patients reactivate regardless of extent of disease,8’ 14, 19 type of treatment whether bedrest,’” collapse therapy,9 long1’ or short term chemotherapy or resection.’8 Further, it is accepted that the rate of relapse is usually in proportion to the extent of disease and the amoun...

Bilateral involvement of the breast with tuberculosis is extremely rare. It most commonly affects young lactating multiparous females, although rarely it may be reported in prepubescent males also. We present a case of a 27-year-old nulliparous female who presented with a history of multiple pus discharging sinuses around both areolae and was diagnosed as a case of bilateral tubercular mastitis...

This study evaluated the influence of pregnancy as a relapse factor in pulmonary tuberculosis in 215 patients who recieved adequate chemotherapy. A comparison was made between the evolution of patients who had pregnancies and those who did not. On ending the period of observation (details are lacking with respect to only of observation (details are lacking with respect to only seven patients), ...

As the result of the strengthening of TB-control programs nationwide, a decline in the overall number of reported TB cases in the United States has been observed within the last 10 years. Despite these declines in absolute numbers, the elderly continue to account for a disproportionate share of the cases. The high number of cases diagnosed at autopsy among the elderly suggests that this conditi...

Tuberculosis (TB) is considered a pulmonary disease that can however disseminate to other organs through hematogenous dissemination following primary TB infection. Evolution of the disease can either be precocious, before healing of the primary infection, or late after primary infection, due to reactivation of initial lesions usually because of simultaneous immunosuppressive factors such as dia...

BACKGROUND Cutaneous myiasis of the breast due to infestation by the larva of Cordylobia anthropophaga is rare. To the best of our knowledge, only one case has been reported in the English literature. This rarity calls for an awareness of its possibility as a cause of furuncular breast lesions, especially in areas where the C. anthropophaga (Tumbu fly) is endemic or in patients returning from s...

Tuberculosis of spine is common in a developing country like India. However, involvement of spine at multiple levels along with involvement of rib and tubercular breast abscess in an immunocompetent patient without any pulmonary involvement is extremely rare. Here we report a case of 53-year-old immunocompetent lady who presented with quadriparesis and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) of spine ...