title: Diabetic fibrous breast disease: a clinical entity that mimics cancer.
abstract: Three typical cases of fibrous mastopathy associated with diabetes mellitus are described. The histological change is a connective-tissue overgrowth with vasculitis and some proliferation of duct epithelium. The clinical changes are indistinguishable by physical or radiographic findings from malignancy. In young patients with long-standing diabetes the presence of one or more suspicious clinical and imaging findings can suggest the presence of this lesion but a surgical biopsy or, at least, a close follow-up is required.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Padua, Italy.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Pluchinotta
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Talenti
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lodovichetti
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tiso
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Biral
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology*; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005355:Fibrosis; D006801:Humans