Oncoplastic breast surgery to treat recurrent granulomatous abscess: A new approach

INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: Granulomatous mastitis is a rare chronic and benign inflammatory breast disease with challenging diagnosis and management. No commonly recognized recommendations are established. Despite of medical and surgical approaches, relapse rate remains high. CASE PRESENTATION: A 43-year-old patient with a history of granulomatous mastitis presented recurrent breast abscess associated with skin fistula. She underwent Racquet mammoplasty procedure inspired from oncoplastic techniques. Medical and cosmetic outcomes were satisfactory. CLINICAL DISCUSSION: Granulomatous mastitis is challenging to diagnose and can be confused with inflammatory breast malignancies. It's associated with high relapse rate. Management of granulomatous mastitis is complex. Its treatment varies from medical management based on steroid therapy and immunosuppressants to surgical approach. In case of recurrent breast abscess, surgical techniques inspired from oncoplastic breast surgery, can be used to improve cosmetic outcome. CONCLUSION: Oncoplastic surgical technic may be considered as an efficient procedure to manage recurrent breast granulomatous abscess.