Chest wall tuberculosis simulating breast carcinoma: imaging appearance

Australas Radiol. 1998 Feb;42(1):86-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.1998.tb00574.x.

Abstract

Tuberculosis of the breast is a rare disease. Tubercular abscesses predominantly affecting the soft tissues are also very infrequent. A case of chest wall tuberculosis secondarily involving the breast presenting as a hard, fixed lump simulating mammary carcinoma is presented here. There was no evidence of pleural or pulmonary tuberculosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Breast Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Breast Diseases / microbiology
  • Breast Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Thoracic Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Thoracic Diseases / microbiology
  • Tuberculosis / diagnosis*