Tuberculosis of the breast masquerading as breast cancer

A 57-year-old female from Ghana was found to have fungating breast lesion and treated for breast cancer with empirical chemotherapy in her home country. On presentation to our breast surgical department in the UK, triple assessment and core biopsy showed the fungating mass to be a caseating granulom...

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Autores principales: Peiris, L, Alam, N, Agrawal, A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JSCR Publishing Ltd 2012
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Breast Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3649662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24960741
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/2012.10.1
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description A 57-year-old female from Ghana was found to have fungating breast lesion and treated for breast cancer with empirical chemotherapy in her home country. On presentation to our breast surgical department in the UK, triple assessment and core biopsy showed the fungating mass to be a caseating granuloma in keeping with Tuberculosis infection.
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spelling pubmed-36496622013-05-20 Tuberculosis of the breast masquerading as breast cancer Peiris, L Alam, N Agrawal, A J Surg Case Rep Breast Surgery A 57-year-old female from Ghana was found to have fungating breast lesion and treated for breast cancer with empirical chemotherapy in her home country. On presentation to our breast surgical department in the UK, triple assessment and core biopsy showed the fungating mass to be a caseating granuloma in keeping with Tuberculosis infection. JSCR Publishing Ltd 2012-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3649662/ /pubmed/24960741 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/2012.10.1 Text en © JSCR
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3649662/
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