Traditionally, tuberculosis (TB) has been considered as a pulmonary disorder. But nearly 17.9% of TB cases represent only with extrapulmonary manifestations (1). Breast tuberculosis is variable and nonspecific, so the diagnosis is usually delayed (2). In this paper, we present seven patients with a palpable, tender or non-tender mass in their breasts, in addition, the trend of diagnosis and tre...

  Absract   Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis is a rare, inflammatory, and benign breast disease   characterized by non-caseating granulomata and microabscesses limited to   breast lobules. This condition presents as a firm breast mass that is clinically and radiologically indistinguishable from breast cancer, or as multiple or recurrent abscesses, or mastitis in a young non-lactating woman. Al...

The coexistence of breast cancer and tuberculosis has been described in over 100 cases; however its coexistence in the axillary lymph node is rare with only a handful cases have been reported in the literature. We report a case of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the left breast, metastatic to ipsilateral axillary lymph nodes harbouring tuberculous lymphadenitis without primary mammary or pulmo...

Introduction: Tubercular breast abscess is one of rare tuberculosis affecting women. Breast tuberculosis most commonly presents as a lump in the central or upper outer quadrant of the breast and discharge from nipple. Materials and Methods: This hospital-based prospective study was carried out at our tertiary care hospital from March 2013 to February 2015 on 197 female patients presenting with ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis was detected by the Isolator lysis-centrifugation blood culture system from the blood of a patient with tuberculosis of the breast. The organism also grew on conventional laboratory media inoculated with pleural fluid from the patient.

Breast tuberculosis (TB) is rare even in endemic countries. Most of these cases occur as secondary TB due to a concurrent infection. Primary breast TB is diagnosed when it is the only site of disease without other foci of infection. The presentation of primary breast TB may often mimic carcinoma of the breast. While imaging is not specific, histopathology provides a definitive diagnosis. Here, ...

Introduction: Breast tuberculosis is a disease that difficult to diagnose with its clinical appearance and can be confused breast abscesses carcinomas. In this study, we aimed analyze 24 patients diagnosed tuberculosis, followed up treated. Material Method: Among 4489 examined in the diseases outpatient clinic between January 2012 December 2020, were evaluated retrospectively. Demographic, feat...

A 57-year-old female from Ghana was found to have fungating breast lesion and treated for breast cancer with empirical chemotherapy in her home country. On presentation to our breast surgical department in the UK, triple assessment and core biopsy showed the fungating mass to be a caseating granuloma in keeping with Tuberculosis infection.

Primary tuberculosis (TB) of the breast is a very rare condition. We present a 50-year-old patient who presented with primary TB of the breast. The significance of the radiological findings, the importance of histological diagnosis and treatment, and the possibility of co-existence with breast cancer are discussed.