Tuberculosis of the breast in a patient undergoing hemodialysis

Int Urol Nephrol. 2011 Mar;43(1):241-4. doi: 10.1007/s11255-010-9731-x. Epub 2010 Apr 4.

Abstract

A 61-year-old female patient with diabetes undergoing maintenance hemodialysis presented with fever and swelling of her right breast. She had been unresponsive to nonspecific antimicrobial therapies. Breast tuberculosis and tuberculous lymphadenitis were diagnosed by excision biopsy and tissue culture. A combination antituberculous treatment including isoniazid, rifampin, ethambutol, and pyrazinamide was started and resulted in the remission of the lesions by the end of the first month of therapy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Biopsy
  • Breast / microbiology*
  • Breast Diseases / complications*
  • Breast Diseases / drug therapy
  • Breast Diseases / microbiology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / complications
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / therapy*
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification*
  • Renal Dialysis*
  • Tuberculosis / complications*
  • Tuberculosis / diagnosis
  • Tuberculosis / drug therapy

Substances

  • Antitubercular Agents