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Arch Intern Med. 2001;161:611-612.

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Granulomatous mastitis (GM) is a benign inflammatory breast disease of unknown origin that usually affects young women of childbearing age.^{1, 2, 3} Patients usually present with a progressive onset of a breast lump and there is no history of infection or trauma. The breast lesion is of variable size, usually unilateral, firm, ill defined, and mildy tender. Sometimes an associated locally inflammatory reaction and even a sinus formation are present; nipple retraction is common.^{1, 2, 3} Enlargement of axillary lymph nodes is frequent, and many have reported cases of patients who were thought to have had a malignant disease and that in some instances resulted in inappropriate radiotherapy and wide resection of breast tissue.¹

Report of a Case

A 43-year-old black woman was seen with a 7-week history of spontaneous sinus formation with purulent discharge at the union of the lower quadrants of the right breast. She was afebrile and findings from clinical examination in addition to the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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