Leprosy—an unusual cause of a suspicious nodule on mammography

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A routine mammogram identified changes thought to be due a lymph node, which was confirmed on biopsy. The node infiltrated with macrophages and showed fragmented acid-fast bacilli. patient had been treated for leprosy some years before still taking thalidomide erythema nodosum leprosum. Leprosy-associated lymphadenopathy may breast screening.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Infectious Diseases

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1878-3511', '1201-9712']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.08.068