Granulomatous lobular mastitis as a rare cause of Erythema Nodosum: Report of two cases

Granulomatous mastitis--a rare cause of erythema nodosum.

Granulomatous mastitis is a recently described, rare condition of unknown aetiology. It occurs in young, parous women as a tender extra-areolar breast lump and therefore needs to be differentiated from carcinoma. Histologically, a discrete granulomatous lobulitis is seen and because of morphological similarities to granulomatous thyroiditis it has been suggested it may be immunologically mediat...

Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis Associated with Erythema Nodosum.

BACKGROUND Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is an uncommon benign chronic inflammatory breast disease, and erythema nodosum (EN) is an extremely rare systemic manifestation of IGM. Here, we report a rare case of IGM accompanied by EN. CASE REPORT A 32-year-old patient was admitted to our clinic with a history of a tender mass in the right breast. On physical examination, the right brea...

Granulomatous lobular mastitis

Granulomatous lobular mastitis is an unusual breast benign inflammatory disorder with unknown aetiology. It is generally emerged with the clinical symptoms of breast mass, abscess, inflammation and mammary duct fistula. The diagnosis is made by histopathology with a chronic non-necrotizing granulomatous inflammation in lobules of the breast tissue as the microscopic feature. Therapy of granulom...

Sarcoidosis Presenting Erythema Nodosum-like Lesions: Report of Two Cases

Introduction: Sarcoidosis is a systemic non-infectious granulomatous disorder which exhibits various specific and non-specific cutaneous manifestations. Erythema nodosum-like eruption is a rare specific lesion associated with sarcoidosis, which histologically shows noncaseating epithelioid granuloma. It is suggested that this type is frequently associated with ocular sarcoidosis. Main observati...

Congental Glucose- Galactose Malabsorption a Rare Cause of Diarrhea in Infancy Period: Report of Two Cases

Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis: report of 3 cases and a review of the literature

  Absract   Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis is a rare, inflammatory, and benign breast disease   characterized by non-caseating granulomata and microabscesses limited to   breast lobules. This condition presents as a firm breast mass that is clinically and radiologically indistinguishable from breast cancer, or as multiple or recurrent abscesses, or mastitis in a young non-lactating woman. Al...