We report the case of a 37-year-old previously healthy woman diagnosed with a breast abscess due to Propionibacterium avidum after breast reduction surgery. This case emphasizes the potential pathogenicity and morbidity associated with this commensal skin organism.

An unusual manifestation of breast fusariosis was encountered in a 55-year-old female diabetic patient. Two fine needle aspirates (FNA) from the abscess were done at three days interval and they showed hyaline, septate, branched, fungal hyphae in 10% potassium hydroxide mount. Fungal infection was confirmed by demonstrating the fungal hyphae in the midst of lymphocytes, macrophages and neutroph...

Tuberculosis (TB) of the breast is a rare disease that typically affects women reproductive age, mainly between 15 and 25 years age. TB has non-specific clinical presentation may present as lump, abscess, or sinus, it sometimes mimic cancer. Histological diagnosis necessary to avoid mismanagement potentially curable disease. We case an 18-year-old female with left upper quadrant lump 1-year dur...

BACKGROUND Breast abscesses are typically seen in the setting of complicated mastitis in lactating women. Abscesses resulting from foreign bodies are not commonly seen in the breast. Over the past few decades, body piercing has become increasingly common, yet the infectious morbidity resulting from it is not well recognized. A breast abscess associated with nipple piercing is described in this ...

Toxic Shock Syndrome is an acute illness caused by exotoxin producing Staphylococcus or Group A Streptococcus. TSS was traditionally associated with high absorbency tampon use in menstruating women until eventually, these were taken off the market. Since then, non-menstrual causes including wound infections, abscess, mastitis, burns, osteomyelitis, retained foreign bodies, etc are leading of TS...

OBJECTIVE To discuss the clinical and radiological features and treatment approaches in 14 patients diagnosed with idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (GM). METHODS We retrospectively evaluated the clinical features, radiological findings, and treatment approaches in 14 patients with idiopathic GM in the General Surgery Department, Gulhane School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey between April 2000 a...

Case A 21-year-old HIV-negative woman underwent nipple piercing in April 2008. During the summer of 2008, she swam in what she described as “nasty algae water.” She developed a painless lump in her left breast 1 month later. She denied experiencing any fever, chills, night sweats, or weight loss. On examination, she had a 2 × 3–cm painless mass at the 3-o’clock position of her left breast, whic...

We report the fourth worldwide case of pure primary squamous cell carcinoma of the breast presenting as an abscess. An inflammatory breast lesion in postmenopausal woman must be suspected as a malignant one and drainage of the abscess has to be followed by an accurate excision. The finding of a pure squamous cell carcinoma bears the necessity of an accurate diagnostic work up, to exclude a skin...

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...