Introduction: Tubercular breast abscess is one of rare tuberculosis affecting women. Breast tuberculosis most commonly presents as a lump in the central or upper outer quadrant of the breast and discharge from nipple. Materials and Methods: This hospital-based prospective study was carried out at our tertiary care hospital from March 2013 to February 2015 on 197 female patients presenting with ...

Thirty post-menopausal women with breast abscess were treated at Port of Spain General Hospital, Trinidad, between 1976 and 1980. In this age group, breast abscess can be confused with cancer due to a lack of inflammatory features. History and physical examination are often not helpful in differentiating an abscess from carcinoma. Although the usual treatment of an abscess is incision and drain...

Thirty post-menopausal women with breast abscess were treated at Port of Spain General Hospital, Trinidad, between 1976 and 1980. In this age group, breast abscess can be confused with cancer due to a lack of inflammatory features. History and physical examination are often not helpful in differentiating an abscess from carcinoma. Although the usual treatment of an abscess is incision and drain...

Breast abscess usually occurs during lactation and the responsible organism is often S. Aureus. Breast abscess in non-lactating women is extremely rare and limited data is available in the literature regarding this entity. In our study, a 36-year-old non-lactating female patient who developed bilateral breast abscess due to E. coli infection without any predisposing factors has been discussed i...

Secretory Breast Carcinoma (SBC) is a rare and distinct type of breast cancer which accounts for less than 0.2% all cancers. The modern imager should be aware this entity as it can sometimes masquerade abscess in the present case

Breast abscess is a condition as old as mankind, references to which are available in ancient scriptures in the civilizations world over. However most of the progress in the diagnosis and treatment of breast abscesses has been made in the last century. The present study was conducted on 50 female patients with provisional diagnosis of breast abscess with an aim to study the bacteriological prof...

Tuberculosis involving ribs and presenting with breast mass is a very rare entity and only a few cases have been reported in the literature previously. A 35 year-old patient had a retromammarial abscess revealed by a mass in the medial quadrant of right breast. Midsternal incision for abscess drainage and a partial resection of involved ribs was performed. Histopathologic evaluation revealed ri...

OBJECTIVES To determine the health and economic burdens of post-partum Staphylococcus aureus breast abscess. STUDY DESIGN We conducted a matched cohort study (N = 216) in a population of pregnant women (N = 32,770) who delivered at our center during the study period from 10/1/03-9/30/10. Data were extracted from hospital databases, or via chart review if unavailable electronically. We compare...

CONTEXT Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the breast is an extremely rare form of cancer, accounting for approximately 0.04% of all malignant breast tumors. To date, only a limited number of cases of SCC of the breast have been reported, and most of them presented like the usual breast carcinomas. CASE REPORT A 39-year-old woman presented with a large breast abscess and signs of sepsis. After ...