ArticleCureus2021
Idiopathic Granulomatous Lobular Mastitis: An Imitation of Breast Carcinoma.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy and Tolerability of Methotrexate for Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The breast journal · 2026Pooled it
- Granulomatous mastitis, erythema nodosum, and arthritis syndrome: a narrative review.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Pooled it
- Distinguishing granulomatous lobular mastitis from breast cancer using a clinical-radiomics nomogram to improve diagnostic accuracy.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Affective temperament and emotion regulation as predictors of clinical outcomes in women with idiopathic granulomatous mastitis.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2026Article
- Clinical value of quantitative analysis of Sonazoid-contrast enhanced ultrasound combined with shear wave elastography in discriminating and diagnosing breast tumor characteristics.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Development and validation of a nomogram for differentiating granulomatous lobular mastitis from ductal carcinoma in situ.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Granulomatous lobular mastitis in pregnancy: report of 29 cases.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Immune Markers and Inflammatory Cytokines in Granulomatous Lobular Mastitis: A Case-Control Study.Journal of inflammation research · 2024Article
- Clinicopathologic Features and Pathogens of Granulomatous Lobular Mastitis.Breast care (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Granulomatous mastitis secondary toJournal of surgical case reports · 2023Article
- Dermis-retained breast dermo-glandular flap: a new surgical approach for granulomatous lobular mastitis.Frontiers in surgery · 2023Article
- Evaluation of breast stiffness pathology based on breast compression during mammography: Proposal for novel breast stiffness scale classification.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2022Article
- Granulomatous mastitis: An underdiagnosed inflammatory disease afflicting minority women.Radiology case reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Since idiopathic granulomatous lobular mastitis, also known as idiopathic granulomatous mastitis or granulomatous lobulitis, was first described by Kessler and Wolloch in 1972, no consensus on the ideal and definitive treatment for this phenomenon has been reached thus far. Idiopathic granulomatous lobular mastitis mostly frequently observed in women of childbearing age within a few years of pregnancy with a higher incidence in patients of Hispanic, Native American, Middle Eastern, and African descent. This entity,
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