Breast Tuberculosis: A Diagnosis Often Unknown: A Case Report
Received Date: Nov 01, 2017 / Accepted Date: Nov 23, 2017 / Published Date: Nov 30, 2017
Abstract
Breast tuberculosis is a rare condition. It poses a differential diagnosis problem with breast cancer because the clinic and imaging are not specific. Breast tuberculosis should be mentioned mainly in endemic countries or in immunocompromised individuals. We report a case of breast tuberculosis in a postmenopausal woman through this case, we describe the particularity clinical and evolving of this entity, and we discuss the diagnostic difficulties.
Keywords: Tuberculosis; Breast; Lymphadenopathy; Impregnation
Citation: Houssem R, Abir A, Abdrahmen D, Najeh B (2017) Breast Tuberculosis: A Diagnosis Often Unknown: A Case Report. J Tuberc Ther 2: 109.
Copyright: © 2017 Houssem R, et al. 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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