Tuberculosis of breast is a rare disease which is difficult to differentiate from carcinoma of breast. The involvement of breast can be primary or secondary to some focus in body. A case of secondary tuberculosis of right breast in a 21-year-old female from Kashmir, India, is being reported. Presentation was as a painless discharging sinus of right breast. A tubercular foci of rib was the affec...

Breast tuberculosis is an uncommon presentation of extra pulmonary tuberculosis. A 40-year-old obese woman presented with a right breast abscess which had failed to heal after surgical drainage. There was no family history of breast disease. Biopsy and histology of the lesion showed chronic granulomatous inflammation with positive stains for acid fast bacilli compatible with tuberculosis. Furth...

Breast tuberculosis is a rare form of tuberculosis, in developed nations its prevalence is 0.1%. In undeveloped nations it is between 3 and 4%. Less frequently breast tuberculosis cases are presented. Some texts deals with simple mastectomy cases understood as breast cancer (6, 8, 9). There is a case. She is a 35 years old woman; she is from Piedras Clavadas, Tihuatlán. She belongs to high prev...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer coexisting with tuberculous axillary lymph nodes is rare. CASE REPORT We report a 69 years old Yemeni patient with a left breast invasive ductal carcinoma associated with contralateral tuberculous axillary lymph nodes containing microcalcifications mimicking malignancy. The patient had to be investigated for the possibility of bilateral breast cancer since she had no ...

Tuberculosis of the breast is an extremely uncommon presentation of an otherwise common disease especially in developing countries. Clinical presentation is usually of a solitary, ill-defined, unilateral hard lump situated in the upper outer quadrant of the breast and may mimic breast carcinoma or breast abscess. Appropriate diagnosis precludes surgery as medical management suffices. We present...

Tuberculosis involving ribs and presenting with breast mass is a very rare entity and only a few cases have been reported in the literature previously. A 35 year-old patient had a retromammarial abscess revealed by a mass in the medial quadrant of right breast. Midsternal incision for abscess drainage and a partial resection of involved ribs was performed. Histopathologic evaluation revealed ri...

Tuberculosis affecting a lymph node within the breast was reported from this center previously. Therefore, the present paper documents the odd combination of tuberculosis in the breast as well as in a contralateral axillary node.

Background: While tuberculosis of the breast is an extremely uncommon entity seen in western populations, it accounts for up to 3% of all treatable breast lesions in developing countries. Case presentations: We reviewed three female cases of mammary tuberculosis that were diagnosed and treated in Turkey during the same calendar year. All three patients presented with a painful breast mass. In a...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis of the breast is an uncommon disease with non-specific clinical, radiological and histological findings. Misdiagnosis is common as biopsy specimens are pauci-bacillary and investigations such as microscopy and culture are frequently negative. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of a breast abscess in a 34-year old Bangladeshi woman attributed to tuberculosis infection. ...