Tuberculosis of the breast masquerading as carcinoma: A study of 100 patients
One hundred patients with tuberculous mastitis were referred to the Tata Memorial Hospital, a cancer center, with a clinical diagnosis of malignancy. This study identifies the possible causes of misdiagnosis and reviews the management of these patients. A lump in the breast with or without ulceratio...
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Veröffentlicht in: | World journal of surgery 1995-05, Vol.19 (3), p.379-381 |
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Zusammenfassung: | One hundred patients with tuberculous mastitis were referred to the Tata Memorial Hospital, a cancer center, with a clinical diagnosis of malignancy. This study identifies the possible causes of misdiagnosis and reviews the management of these patients. A lump in the breast with or without ulceration was the commonest presentation, the others being diffuse nodularity and multiple sinuses. Concomitant axillary lymph nodes were found in one‐third of the patients. Tuberculosis lesions such as nodular mastitis, disseminated mastitis, and sclerosing lesions clinically mimicked a fibroadenoma, carcinoma, and fibrocystic mastitis depending on the mode of presentation. A young, multiparous, lactating woman with a lesion should arouse the suspicion of tuberculous mastitis, although pretherapcutic pathologic confirmation of a benign disease is mandatory. Mammography, fine‐needle aspiration cytology, and excision biopsy for this purpose are successful in 14%, 12%, and 60% of cases, respectively. Acid‐fast bacilli were identified in 12% patients. All patients received antituberculous chemotherapy, and 14% patients required simple mastectomy, due to either lack of response to chemotherapy (10%) or large painful, ulcerative lesions involving the entire breast (4%). Axillary dissection was performed in only 8% patients with large ulcerated axillary nodes. All patients, followed for a minimum of 2 years, were free of disease after therapy.
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Cent patients ayant une mastite tuberculeuse ont été adressées au Tata Memorial Hospital, un centre anticancéreux, avec le diagnostic de tumeur maligne. Cette étude cherche à identifier les causes possibles d'erreurs diagnostiques et revoit la prise en charge de ces patients. Un nodule du sein avec ou sans ulcération a été le signe le plus souvent retrouvé; viennent ensuite des nodules diffus et de multiples crevasses. Des adénopathies axillaires ont été découvertes simultanément chez un tiers des patients. Des lésions tuberculeuses telles que la mastite nodulaire, la mastite disséminée et des lésions sclérosantes pouvant évoquer un fibroadénome, un cancer ou une mastite fibrokystique étaient les autres formes de présentation. Des femmes jeunes, multipares en période de lactation, avec une telle lésion devrait suggérer le diagnostic de mastite tuberculeuse. La confirmation d'une maladie maligne ou bénigne est cependant obligatoire avant d'entreprendre toute thérapeutique. La mammographie, la cytologie à l'aiguille fine et l'exérè |
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ISSN: | 0364-2313 1432-2323 |
DOI: | 10.1007/BF00299163 |