Diabetic mastopathy: case report.
Diabetic mastopathy is a rare fibro-inflammatory breast disease, which occurs in premenopausal women affected by longstanding type I insulin-dependent diabetes. It is a benign disease and it is often misunderstood for its clinical and radiological features that may mimic a breast cancer. The diagnosis of diabetic mastopathy is based on histological examination and it is characterized by lymphocytic lobulitis with glandular atrophy and perivascular lymphocytic infiltration. The patients do not need to undergo surgery but it is necessary to plan an adequate clinical and radiological monitoring program.


BACKGROUND
Diabetic mastopathy, Diagnostic and therapeutic features.
University Hospital of Parma, Italy. aghirarduzzi@ao.pr.it
Andrea
A
Ghirarduzzi
Roberto
R
Sivelli
Belinda
B
De Simone
A S
AS
Ambrosini
Maria Francesca
MF
Arcuri
Mario
M
Sianesi
D000328:Adult; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D048909:Diabetes Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans