Recurrent Bilateral Breast Abscess Due to Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection

Since recurrent bilateral breast infection due to nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) is rare, its diagnosis is easily overlooked; in addition, complete recovery is often difficult to achieve. We report a case of recurrent bilateral infection in a 35-year-old woman who had completed treatment for NTM...

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Autores principales: Yoo, Hyunkyung, Choi, Sang Hyun, Kim, Youn Jeong, Kim, Sei Joong, Cho, Young Up, Choi, Suk Jin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Breast Cancer Society 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4197362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25320630
http://dx.doi.org/10.4048/jbc.2014.17.3.295
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author Yoo, Hyunkyung
Choi, Sang Hyun
Kim, Youn Jeong
Kim, Sei Joong
Cho, Young Up
Choi, Suk Jin
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description Since recurrent bilateral breast infection due to nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) is rare, its diagnosis is easily overlooked; in addition, complete recovery is often difficult to achieve. We report a case of recurrent bilateral infection in a 35-year-old woman who had completed treatment for NTM. Although various infectious diseases show similar clinical conditions and imaging findings, recurrences should raise suspicion of NTM infection, and this possibility should be considered in differential diagnoses.
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spelling pubmed-41973622014-10-15 Recurrent Bilateral Breast Abscess Due to Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection Yoo, Hyunkyung Choi, Sang Hyun Kim, Youn Jeong Kim, Sei Joong Cho, Young Up Choi, Suk Jin J Breast Cancer Case Report Since recurrent bilateral breast infection due to nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) is rare, its diagnosis is easily overlooked; in addition, complete recovery is often difficult to achieve. We report a case of recurrent bilateral infection in a 35-year-old woman who had completed treatment for NTM. Although various infectious diseases show similar clinical conditions and imaging findings, recurrences should raise suspicion of NTM infection, and this possibility should be considered in differential diagnoses. Korean Breast Cancer Society 2014-09 2014-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4197362/ /pubmed/25320630 http://dx.doi.org/10.4048/jbc.2014.17.3.295 Text en © 2014 Korean Breast Cancer Society. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4197362/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4048/jbc.2014.17.3.295
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