First Report of Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis Treated with Methotrexate Monotherapy

First report of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis treated with methotrexate monotherapy.

Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis in Pregnancy: A Case Report

Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis is an inflammatory disease with unknown etiology. The clinical signs and mammograms of the disease can mimic breast cancer. The present study reports a case of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis in a pregnant woman. A 26-year-old woman, who was 24 weeks pregnant, felt a mass on her left breast. Biopsy of the mass revealed no evidence of malignancy. For treatment...

Bilateral Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis: A Case Report

Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis is a relatively rare chronic inflammatory breast disease often mistaken for more common breast disorders, breast abscess or infectious mastitis, and can mimic inflammatory breast cancer.1,2 Since it was first described in 1972 by Kessler and Wolloch3, there have been only 541 cases reported worldwide as shown in a 2011 review article.4 Most patients are women o...

Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis: A Case Report

Problem statement: Granulomatous Lobular Mastitis (GLM) or autoimmune mastitis is a rare and benign disease which, except one case reported in an old man, is usually seen during pregnancy or lactation period. This disease was described for the first time by Kessler. Approach: Our case is a 34 year-old woman who has a child with a history of using OCP that primary complaint was swelling, heat an...

[Idiopathic chronic granulomatous mastitis: a case report].

Idiopathic chronic granulomatous mastitis is a rare disease in women at the reproductive life with clinic, mammographic, echographic and cytological characteristics suggestive of breast cancer. We report a case of breast pathology in a 35 years old woman who had a sensitiveness and eritematous tumor localized in the left breast. With the diagnosis of "mastitis", she was treated with antibiotics...