ArticleAnnals of thoracic medicine2008
Tuberculosis of the breast.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Breast tuberculosis: a case series.Journal of medical case reports · 2021Pooled it
- Non-lactational Infectious Mastitis in the Americas: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Breast Tuberculosis in Women: A Systematic Review.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2019Pooled it
- Breast tuberculosis in men: A systematic review.PloS one · 2018Pooled it
- Tuberculous mastitis, the great imitator in breast disease: a case report with diagnostic and therapeutic challenges.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2026Article
- Microbiologically Confirmed Primary Tubercular Breast Abscess in a Young Female: A Case Report.Clinical case reports · 2025Article
- Breast tuberculosis with bone destruction mimicking breast cancer with bone metastasis: a case report and literature review.Gland surgery · 2024Article
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- A rare extrapulmonary presentation of tuberculosis: Breast tuberculosis.Clinical case reports · 2023Article
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- Is it tuberculosis mastitis or granulomatous mastitis? A thirteen-year experience at a university hospital.Turkish journal of medical sciences · 2023Article
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- Breast tuberculosis: a diagnosis not to be forgottenJournal of the Turkish German Gynecological Association · 2021Article
- Case series on variable presentations of tuberculosis of the breast.BMJ case reports · 2020Article
- Breast Abcess and Tuberculosis and its Diagnostic Challenges: A Two-Year Prospective Study in Karachi, Pakistan.Cureus · 2019Article
- Tuberculosis of the breast: an uncommon presentation of an old disease.BMJ case reports · 2019Article
- Differentiation of breast tuberculosis and breast cancer using diffusion-weighted, T2-weighted and dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging.SA journal of radiology · 2018Article
- Clinical and Cytological Spectrum of Granulomatous Mastitis and Utility of FNAC in Picking up Tubercular Mastitis: An Eight-Year Study.Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR · 2017Article
- Retrospective analysis of seven breast tuberculosis cases.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2016Article
- Tuberculous cold abscess of breast: an unusual presentation in a male patient.Gland surgery · 2016Article
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Abstract
Tuberculosis of the breast is an uncommon disease even in countries where the incidence of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis is high. Clinical presentation is usually of a solitary, ill-defined, unilateral hard lump situated in the upper outer quadrant of the breast. This disease can present a diagnostic problem on radiological and microbiological investigations, and thus a high index of suspicion is needed. Incorporating a highly sensitive technique like polymerase chain reaction (PCR) may be helpful in establishing the usefulness of such technology and can aid in conforming the diagnosis early. The disease is curable with antitubercular drugs, and surgery is rarely required.
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