title: Granulomatous mastitis: case report and review of literature.
abstract: A 38-year-old woman presented with a 5-month history of a right breast mass after delivery of her second child. The lesion simulated the picture of a carcinoma on clinical grounds. Fine-needle aspiration also reported an erroneous diagnosis of malignancy. At surgery, a discrete granuloma with microabscesses was seen without any causative organisms being identified. Open biopsy or Tru-Cut needle biopsy is recommended to prevent such an error which may result in unnecessary radical surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kasantikul
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008413:Mastitis / Q000473:pathology*