Case Report Tuberculosis of the Breast in an Adolescent Girl: A Rare Presentation
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چکیده
Tuberculosis (TB) of the breast is a rare form of extra-pulmonary TB, even in countries like India, where TB is still rampant. It commonly affects women in reproductive age group especially during lactation and constitutes 0.64–3.59% of all breast pathologies. It rarely affects children. It presents a diagnostic challenge as it closely mimics carcinoma of the breast and pyogenic inflammatory disease. Here we report an adolescent girl who presented initially with prolonged fever and later developed tubercular breast abscess while on anti-tubercular therapy (ATT).
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