IGM: idiopathic granulomatous mastitis INTRODUCTION Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is a rare, chronic inflammatory disease of the breast. IGM most commonly affects young, healthy parous women and usually presents as an ill-defined breast lump simulating malignancy. On histopathology, noncaseating granulomas confined to the breast lobules are typically seen. We present a unique case of ...

The incidence of breast cancer complicating chronic mastitis with epitheliosis has been reported to be as high as 45% and as low as 6%. At least part of this discrepancy appears to be due to difficulty in distinguishing between benign and malignant intraduct epithelial proliferation.A small series is presented here in which the incidence of invasive cancer after local excision of breast tissue ...

Mastitis is an economic problem. As with many other cattle diseases, the economic damage of mastitis, either clinical or sub-clinical, can be brought down to a few categories: milk production losses, drugs, discarded milk, veterinarian, labour, milk quality, culling, clinical mastitis, sub-clinical mastitis and other diseases. Management decisions can be taken at various levels: the quarter lev...

Granulomatous lobular mastitis is an unusual breast benign inflammatory disorder with unknown aetiology. It is generally emerged with the clinical symptoms of breast mass, abscess, inflammation and mammary duct fistula. The diagnosis is made by histopathology with a chronic non-necrotizing granulomatous inflammation in lobules of the breast tissue as the microscopic feature. Therapy of granulom...

Granulomatous lobular mastitis is a rare inflammatory disease of the breast of unknown etiology. Most present as breast masses in women of child-bearing age. A 29-year-old female presented with a swollen, firm and tender right breast, initially misdiagnosed as mastitis. Core needle biopsy revealed findings consistent with granulomatous lobular mastitis, and cultures were all negative for an inf...

Background Health of mammary glands is fundamental for milk and dairy products hygiene and quality, with huge impacts on consumers welfare. Methods This study aims to investigate the microbial agents (bacteria, fungi and lentiviruses) isolated from 89 macroscopically healthy udders of regularly slaughtered small ruminants (41 sheep, 48 goats), also correlating their presence with the histolog...

1 Bacterial infections causing mastitis in sheep can result in severe economic losses for farmers. A 2 large survey of milk samples from ewes with mastitis in Sardinia, Italy, indicated an increasing 3 prevalence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections. It has been shown previously that during 4 chronic, biofilm-associated infections P. aeruginosa populations diversify. We report the 5 phenotypic ...

Currently, somatic cell count (SCC) and bacterial culture are considered as the gold standard of detecting subclinical Mastitis. Mastitis leads to proliferation of lymphocytes in the supramammary lymph nodes and subsequent enlargement of ipsilateral lymph node. Ultrasonography can be used to survey these changes. A portable ultrasound machine with a 2-5 MHz convex transducer was used to identif...

Introduction: Granulomatous mastitis is a rare benign disease, the exact cause of which is still unknown. It usually presents as a mass which may simulate carcinoma. Many patients are put on long term antibiotics because of breast abscess suspicion, but are not cured. This disease usually affects women of child-bearing age with a history of oral contraceptive use. Most cases have been reported ...

A prospective cohort study was undertaken in two commercial California dairies. The treatment group, 246 cows, received three doses of a whole cell bacterin of J5 Escherichia coli (mutant of E. coli O111:B4) plus Freund's incomplete adjuvant vaccine (two in the dry period and one after calving) while 240 unvaccinated cows served as controls. Thirty-five cases of clinical coliform mastitis were ...