BACKGROUND Breast tuberculosis is an uncommon disease even in countries where the incidence of tuberculosis is high. CASE REPORT This is a case series concerning 4 postmenopausal breast tuberculosis cases encountered in Moulay Youssef Hospital between January 2007 and December 2010. Breast tuberculosis represents 0.25% of all hospitalized tuberculosis patients in our department. The mean age ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the usefulness of office-based breast ultrasound. DESIGN Prospective, nonrandomized study. SETTING Academic-affiliated community teaching hospital. PATIENTS Among 653 consecutive patients seen in our office during a 30-month period, we performed 660 ultrasound examinations. The presenting complaint included a palpable mass in 53%, abnormal mammogram in 39%, and nipp...

We describe the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of 13 cm-sized low-grade angiosarcoma of the breast that occurred in a 23-year-old woman. Magnetic resonance examination revealed an ill-defined mass with marked high-signal intensity on T2-weighted images and persistent heterogeneous enhancement. Thirty months later she developed bone metastases, incidentally found on an MRI performed t...

mammary sarcomas are a heterogeneous group of malignant neoplasms that arise from the mammary stroma. primary sarcomas of the breast are extremely rare and comprise less than 0.1% of all malignant tumors of the breast. we present the case of a 56-year-old female diagnosed as stromal sarcoma, not otherwise specified - a very rare entity.

Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) of the breast is a heterogeneous group of lesions with diverse malignant potential and a range of controversial treatment options. It is the most rapidly growing subgroup in the breast cancer family, with more than 36,000 new cases diagnosed in the United States during 1997. Most new cases are nonpalpable and discovered mammographically. In this overview, a varie...

background: studies have shown that obese individuals are at increased risk of breast cancer development and poorer prognosis. leptin, an adipose tissue-derived hormone, has pro-inflammatory and proliferative effects and a well-established association with several comorbidities of obesity. this study was designed and conducted to compare the serum levels of leptin in patients with malignant and...

dermatomyositis (dm) is a rare idiopathic inflammatory myopathy with characteristic skin lesions. case series have shown an association between dermatomyositis and malignancy. malignancy has been found in 15-25% of the adult patients with dermatomyositis. a 50-year-old new case of breast cancer, was admitted with muscle weakness and inability to walk. physical examination revealed fever, perior...

Introduction Dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI is being increasingly used to characterize abnormalities of the breast. Features of the contrast uptake and washout demonstrate high negative predictive value for identifying and characterizing breast lesions. We performed compartment modeling using the Tofts’ model [1]. Mean vascular permeability over tumor volume has been generally used to char...

background : magnetic resonance imaging of the breast is becoming a useful adjunct to mammography and sonography for the detection of breast lesions. however, it is not yet accepted as a routine examination for all breast cancer patients due to the lack of data regarding whether breast magnetic resonance imaging impacts recurrence or survival. this trial examines the use of magnetic resonance i...

background: we conducted our study on 1110 patients with breast masses in order to investigate different aspects of power doppler sonography (pds) for differentiating between benign and malignant breast lesions and their prognostication. materials and methods: this study was conducted on the women who were referred to the sonography units of university hospitals for breast sonography and had a ...