ArticleTheScientificWorldJournal2013
Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis: an autoimmune disease?
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- Factors Affecting Recurrence of Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis: A Systematic Review.The breast journal · 2023Pooled it
- Oxidative Stress-Related DNA Damage in Patients with Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis: A Prospective Case-Control Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis: A Comprehensive Review of Etiology, Diagnosis, and Management.European journal of breast health · 2026Article
- Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis in a Postmenopausal Woman Mimicking Breast Carcinoma: A Diagnostic Challenge.Cureus · 2026Article
- A machine learning-driven Raman spectroscopy approach for non-invasive diagnosis of non-puerperal mastitis.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2026Article
- From hypothesis to robust evidence in a nationwide multicenter case-control study on 1490 women: milk stasis and idiopathic granulomatous mastitis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Analysis of three treatment methods for granulomatous lobular mastitis: a retrospective study in a single center.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Skin Involvement of Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis: Sonographic, Clinical, and Histopathological Features.The breast journal · 2025Article
- Is Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis a Subgroup of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus? A Preliminary Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
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- Relationship of post-treatment radiological findings with relapses in idiopathic granulomatous mastitis patients.Northern clinics of Istanbul · 2024Article
- Immune pathogenesis of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis: from etiology toward therapeutic approaches.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
- Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Is a Useful Tool for Distinguishing Primary Raynaud's Phenomenon from Systemic Sclerosis and/or Very Early Disease of Systemic Sclerosis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A rare spontaneous breast abscess due to Mycobacterium chelonae: a case report.Surgical case reports · 2023Article
- Clinical, microbiological, immunological and hormonal profiles of patients with granulomatous mastitis.Biomedical reports · 2023Article
- Identification of periductal mastitis and granulomatous lobular mastitis: a literature review.Annals of translational medicine · 2023Review
- Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis: Six years of experience and the current evidence in literature.Sultan Qaboos University medical journal · 2023Article
- Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis as an Unusual Cause of Erythema Nodosum in a Malagasy Woman.International medical case reports journal · 2023Article
- Clinical, Histopathological, Imaging, and Treatment Perspectives of Inflammatory Granulomatous Mastitis: Review of the Literature.The Eurasian journal of medicine · 2022Article
- Management of granulomatous lobular mastitis: an international multidisciplinary consensus (2021 edition).Military Medical Research · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study aimed to investigate the autoimmune basis of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) by determining the anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) and extractable nuclear antigen (ENA) levels of patients diagnosed with IGM. MATERIAL AND
methodsTwenty-six IGM patients were evaluated. Serum samples were analyzed for autoantibodies by indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) using a substrate kit that induced fluorescein-conjugated goat antibodies to human immunoglobulin G (IgG). IIF patterns were read at serum dilutions of 1 : 40 and 1 : 100 for ANA positivity. Using the immunoblot technique, the sera of patients were assayed at dilutions of 1 : 40 and 1 : 100 for human autoantibodies of the IgG class to 15 lines of highly purified ENAs.
resultsIn the IIF studies for ANA, positivity was identified for four different patterns in the 1 : 40 diluted preparations, for three different patients in the 1 : 100 diluted preparations and only one pattern was identified at the 1 : 320 dilution. In the ENA studies, positivity was identified for four different pattern in the 1 : 40 dilution, and only one pattern was identified at the 1 : 100 dilution.
conclusionThis study was not able to support the eventual existence of an autoimmune basis for IGM.
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