Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Mammary tuberculosis mimicking breast cancer: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Case report Open Access Mammary tuberculosis mimicking breast cancer a case report loannis Maroulis1 Charalambos Spyropoulos 1 Vasiliki Zolota2 and Evaggelos Tzorakoleftherakis1 Address Department of Surgery University Hospital of Patras Rion Greece and 2Department of Pathology University Hospital of Patras Rion Greece Email loannis Maroulis - Charalambos Spyropoulos -xspiropupatras@ Vasiliki Zolota - zol@ Evaggelos Tzorakoleftherakis - tzorak@ Corresponding author Published I February 2008 Received 25 September 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 34 doi 1752-1947-2-34 Accepted 1 February 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 34 2008 Maroulis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction The incidence of tuberculosis is rising worldwide and rare manifestations of the past are seen more often nowadays. Mammary tuberculosis is a rare clinical entity often mimicking breast cancer or abscesses of benign or malignant origin. Clinical awareness is necessary during diagnostic work-up for establishing the correct diagnosis and treatment. Case presentation We present a case of breast tuberculosis diagnosed in a 73 year old woman at our institution. The patient presented with a palpable mass of the right breast with clinical laboratory and mammographic findings indicative of breast carcinoma. The patient underwent lumpectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy. Frozen section of the tumor and the sentinel node revealed granulomatous inflammation while gross examination confirmed the diagnosis of tuberculous mastitis. The patient received .
