Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis is a rare disorder of unknown etiology. This disease occurs mostly in young women and often after the lactation period. Women usually present with a fixed, painful mass, sparing the retroareolar region, associated with skin thickening and possible ulceration that mimics carcinoma. Nipple discharge can be present and bilateral involvement may occur in up to 25% ...

Granulomatous mastitis is a rare and often considered as idiopathic disease. However, clinical examination and thorough diagnostic investigations have to be carried out in order to identify cases that are secondary to infections or systemic diseases since these forms may be cured with appropriate etiologic treatment. To the best of our knowledge, this report is the first to describe the associa...

Introduction ranulomatous diseases of the breast can result from a variety of causes like tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, fungal infections, Wegner’s granulomatosis. Granulomatous mastitis may occur as a complication of diabetes. Use of hormonal contraceptives, prolactin raising medications and hyperprolactaminemia has been implicated in pathogenesis or as predisposing factor. We consider the granul...

We report a case of Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis in 21 years old female who came to our hospital with complaints painful lump her left breast because the results initial excision fibroadenoma, when re-exploration was done rule out any foreign body – biopsy done. However, final histopathological diagnosis suture granuloma, no evidence malignancy. A review literature revealed that idiopathic...

Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is an uncommon breast disease often mistaken for breast infection or abscess. We present a case of IGM diagnosed after prolonged ineffective treatment of presumed infectious mastitis with abscess. Once the diagnosis was made with biopsy and further evaluation to exclude other causes of granulomatous disease, sinus tract debridement and closure by secondar...

titis (ILGM) is a rare chronic inflammatory disease of the breast that can clinically mimic breast carcinoma. Patients usually present with progressive onset of a breast lump. The most common clinical presentation is a firm unilateral, discrete breast mass, often associated with an inflammation of the overlying skin. Nipple retraction and even a sinus formation are present. Regional lymphadenop...

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...