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Primary Tubercular Breast Abscess in an Indian Female: A Rare Case

Tuberculosis is widespread in developing countries, which usually presents as pulmonary tuberculosis. However, cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis at sites other than the lungs are also reported. The present case is a rare variety of extrapulmonary tuberculosis presenting as a primary tubercular br...

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Autor principal: Yadav, Sankalp
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10407965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37559857
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41586
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description Tuberculosis is widespread in developing countries, which usually presents as pulmonary tuberculosis. However, cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis at sites other than the lungs are also reported. The present case is a rare variety of extrapulmonary tuberculosis presenting as a primary tubercular breast abscess in an Indian female with no pulmonary involvement and no history of tuberculosis. A detailed clinical workup led to the final diagnosis, and she was put on anti-tuberculous treatment per the national guidelines.
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spelling pubmed-104079652023-08-09 Primary Tubercular Breast Abscess in an Indian Female: A Rare Case Yadav, Sankalp Cureus Internal Medicine Tuberculosis is widespread in developing countries, which usually presents as pulmonary tuberculosis. However, cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis at sites other than the lungs are also reported. The present case is a rare variety of extrapulmonary tuberculosis presenting as a primary tubercular breast abscess in an Indian female with no pulmonary involvement and no history of tuberculosis. A detailed clinical workup led to the final diagnosis, and she was put on anti-tuberculous treatment per the national guidelines. Cureus 2023-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10407965/ /pubmed/37559857 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41586 Text en Copyright © 2023, Yadav et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Primary Tubercular Breast Abscess in an Indian Female: A Rare Case
title_full Primary Tubercular Breast Abscess in an Indian Female: A Rare Case
title_fullStr Primary Tubercular Breast Abscess in an Indian Female: A Rare Case
title_full_unstemmed Primary Tubercular Breast Abscess in an Indian Female: A Rare Case
title_short Primary Tubercular Breast Abscess in an Indian Female: A Rare Case
title_sort primary tubercular breast abscess in an indian female: a rare case
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10407965/
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