Primary tuberculosis of the breast mimicking carcinoma.
This report describes a well-documented case of primary, nodular-form tuberculosis of the breast that mimicked cancer in a 73-year-old patient. This is a disease that rarely affects the breast.
da Silva
Benedito Borges
BB
Department of Gynecology and Department of Pathology, Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Piauí, Brazil. beneditoborges@globo.com
Dos Santos
Lina G
LG
Costa
Pedro Vitor L
PV
Pires
Cleicilene Gomes
CG
Borges
Anatole Santos
AS
D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008413:Mastitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology