Primary tuberculosis of the breast mimicking carcinoma.

Autor: da Silva BB; Department of Gynecology and Department of Pathology, Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Piauí, Brazil. beneditoborges@globo.com, Dos Santos LG, Costa PV, Pires CG, Borges AS
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene [Am J Trop Med Hyg] 2005 Nov; Vol. 73 (5), pp. 975-6.
Abstrakt: This report describes a well-documented case of primary, nodular-form tuberculosis of the breast that mimicked cancer in a 73-year-old patient. This is a disease that rarely affects the breast.
Databáze: MEDLINE