Secondary Tuberculosis of Breast: Case Report | Zendy

Imtiaz Wani | Zendy; Ali M. Lone | Zendy; R Malik | Zendy; Khursheed Alam Wani | Zendy; Rauf A. Wani | Zendy; Irfan Hussain | Zendy; Natasha Thakur | Zendy; Vilam Snabel | Zendy

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Secondary Tuberculosis of Breast: Case Report

Author(s) -

Imtiaz Wani,

Ali M. Lone,

R Malik,

Khursheed Alam Wani,

Rauf A. Wani,

Irfan Hussain,

Natasha Thakur,

Vilam Snabel

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

isrn surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2090-5793

pISSN - 2090-5785

DOI - 10.5402/2011/529368

Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , presentation (obstetrics) , right breast , sinus (botany) , breast carcinoma , surgery , disease , breast cancer , radiology , general surgery , pathology , cancer , botany , biology , genus

Tuberculosis of breast is a rare disease which is difficult to differentiate from carcinoma of breast. The involvement of breast can be primary or secondary to some focus in body. A case of secondary tuberculosis of right breast in a 21-year-old female from Kashmir, India, is being reported. Presentation was as a painless discharging sinus of right breast. A tubercular foci of rib was the affecting source of disease. No other evidence of tuberculosis was present in the body. Resection of involved rib segment, along with the discharging sinus, was performed. The patient had antitubercular therapy for 9 months, with no recurrence seen in followup.

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