Abstract
Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and mainly affects the lungs. Breast tuberculosis
(TB) is a rare localization of extra-pulmonary TB. Breast tuberculosis has a prevalence of 0.6% to 3.6% of
all breast infective conditions in India. It appears mostly in women of reproductive, age, multiparous, lactating. It has been
scarcely reported to infect male patients, mainly before puberty, as well as women of older age. Most commonly the disease
presents as a lump in the central or upper-outer quadrant of the breast while multiple lumps appear less frequently. Often the
presentation leads to misdiagnose breast tuberculosis with either breast carcinoma or abscess because lump can mimic breast
carcinoma, being hard, with irregular border, xed to either the skin or the muscle or even to the chest wall. Treatment generally
involves anti-TB medications with or without surgery
Subject
Paleontology,Stratigraphy,Geology,Building and Construction,Architecture,Human Factors and Ergonomics,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Polymers and Plastics,Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Civil and Structural Engineering,General Physics and Astronomy,Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Psychiatry and Mental health,Clinical Psychology,Development,Geography, Planning and Development,Health Policy,Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous),Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language
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