Cytodiagnosis of herpes simplex mastitis: Report of a rare case

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is a rare cause of breast infection. Few cases of maternal-infant transmission of the virus during breastfeeding resulting in nipple lesions have been documented. Only three cases have been reported in nonlactating women. We report an additional case of HSV mastitis in a 3...

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Autores principales: Mardi, Kavita, Gupta, Neelam, Sharma, Sudershan, Gupta, Saurabh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21938180
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.62185
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author Mardi, Kavita
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description Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is a rare cause of breast infection. Few cases of maternal-infant transmission of the virus during breastfeeding resulting in nipple lesions have been documented. Only three cases have been reported in nonlactating women. We report an additional case of HSV mastitis in a 36-year-old nonlactating female who was diagnosed on scrape cytology smears.
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spelling pubmed-31680012011-09-21 Cytodiagnosis of herpes simplex mastitis: Report of a rare case Mardi, Kavita Gupta, Neelam Sharma, Sudershan Gupta, Saurabh J Cytol Case Report Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is a rare cause of breast infection. Few cases of maternal-infant transmission of the virus during breastfeeding resulting in nipple lesions have been documented. Only three cases have been reported in nonlactating women. We report an additional case of HSV mastitis in a 36-year-old nonlactating female who was diagnosed on scrape cytology smears. Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC3168001/ /pubmed/21938180 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.62185 Text en © Journal of Cytology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cytodiagnosis of herpes simplex mastitis: Report of a rare case
title Cytodiagnosis of herpes simplex mastitis: Report of a rare case
title_full Cytodiagnosis of herpes simplex mastitis: Report of a rare case
title_fullStr Cytodiagnosis of herpes simplex mastitis: Report of a rare case
title_full_unstemmed Cytodiagnosis of herpes simplex mastitis: Report of a rare case
title_short Cytodiagnosis of herpes simplex mastitis: Report of a rare case
title_sort cytodiagnosis of herpes simplex mastitis: report of a rare case
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21938180
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.62185
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