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. ...

Introduction: Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis (IGM) is a rare, debilitating, chronic inflammatory disease of the breast, occurring in women child-bearing age, which can clinically, and radiologically mimic abscess, tubercular infection or breast cancer. Homoeopathy treat by addressing its multifactorial origin, given holistic approach. The paper presents case series 11 patients IGM treated wi...

Metaplastic breast carcinoma (MBC) is a rare neoplasm containing a mixture of epithelial and mesenchymal elements. The epithelial component is usually ductal carcinoma but may include other variants of breast carcinomas including squamous carcinoma and osteogenic sarcoma. There is a relative paucity of data regarding such tumours. Metaplastic carcinoma carries a prognosis not dissimilar to that...

idiopathic lobular grunulomatous mastitis is a chronic inflammatory disease of breast that can clinically mimic brent carcinoma or pyogenic abscess. the most common clinical presentation is a fine unilateral discrete mass associated inflammation of overlying skin. nipple retraction and sinus formation are present. breast tb should be considered in differential we present a few cause of our cent...

BACKGROUND There are only limited reports on the ultrasound (US) features of breast abscess. The purpose of this paper is to review the US features of breast abscess with emphasis on "hypoechoic rim" sign which is more commonly seen in chronic abscess. METHODS In a period of 10 years, 20,998 patients were referred for breast US examinations. Medical records identified 204 patients in whom bre...

Although tuberculosis is a very common disease in endemic areas, isolated involvement of the breast is very rare. Any form of tuberculous mastitis may present with features of malignancy. Diagnosis is mainly based on identification of tubercle bacilli. We report a 50-year-old woman with primary tuberculous abscess of the breast which simulated carcinoma on mammography, and describe the importan...

The authors presents a case of cribriform breast carcinoma in a cyst that clinically imitated an abscess. The case concerns a 71-year-old female patient treated for ankylosing spondylitis, with a positive family history of breast cancer. The patient presented at the surgical clinic for incision of an abscess of the mammary gland localized in the lower inner quadrant that was a consequence of pr...