CT Demonstration of Empyema Necessitatis

Bhatt, Ghanshyam M.; Austin, Howard M.

doi:10.1097/00004728-198511000-00020

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“…A direct fistulous tract with the pleura or a destroyed rib fragment in the abscess can be seen due to disease [9]. Symptoms in breast tuberculosis are usually seen for less than one year; its duration varied from few months to several years.…”

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Secondary Tuberculosis of Breast: Case Report

et al. 2011

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Tuberculosis of breast is a rare disease which is difficult to differentiate from carcinoma of breast. The involvement of breast can be primary or secondary to some focus in body. A case of secondary tuberculosis of right breast in a 21-year-old female from Kashmir, India, is being reported. Presentation was as a painless discharging sinus of right breast. A tubercular foci of rib was the affecting source of disease. No other evidence of tuberculosis was present in the body. Resection of involved rib segment, along with the discharging sinus, was performed. The patient had antitubercular therapy for 9 months, with no recurrence seen in followup.

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Secondary Tuberculosis of Breast: Case Report

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“…Tubercular breast abscess may be seen as smoothly marginated, nonhomogeneous, hypodense lesion with surrounding rim on contrast CT [37]. A direct fistulous tract with the pleura or a destroyed rib fragment in the abscess can also be seen [38]. Breast abscess may be drained using CT guidance and also guided biopsy can be performed.…”

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Breast Tuberculosis

2015

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“…CT scan and MRI has been mainly used to detect extramammary involvement of tuberculosis. [27][28][29][30] In our series 1patient was sent for CT. She had been operated multiple times for abscess and fibrocystic breast disease and presented with a hard-indurated mass with multiple discharging sinuses with fixity to the underlying deep structures. The gold standard for the diagnosis of tuberculosis of breast is detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by ZN Stainor by culture.…”

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Tuberculosis of breast: an Indian scenario

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Background: Tuberculosis of breast is quite rare in relation to all breast pathology that we encounter in our daily practice. Ever since it was first described in 1829 many reports have been published. There has been an increasing incidence since the resurgence of AIDS.Methods: This study was done to see the incidence, presentation and investigative modality of tuberculosis of breast in our hospital.Results: A total of 986 patients out of which 585 were fibrocystic breast disease, 238 were malignant, 84 cases presented as abscess, followed by 45 cases as galactocele. 34 cases were diagnosed as tuberculosis of breast. Presentation of tuberculosis of breast was lump 19cases. 9 cases presented as abscess of breast, 4 cases had discharging sinus out of which 2 had developed them after being operated elsewhere for benign breast lump and abscess. Core needle biopsy was done in 4 cases with 2 cases coming out to be positive. Incisional biopsy was done on 2 cases which had come with mutilated breasts and they were positive for tuberculosis. 2 patients underwent excision of small lump diagnosed as fibroadenoma on FNAC, which came out as tuberculosis on biopsy. FNAC of the axillary lymph node showed a positivity rate of 43%. 9 cases were negative.Conclusions: Thus, breast lesions has to be dealt with carefully keeping in mind tuberculosis of breast, as it is a potentially curable disease and we can avoid a lot of morbidity if we can diagnose and start early ATT.

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CT Demonstration of Empyema Necessitatis

Cited by 27 publications

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Secondary Tuberculosis of Breast: Case Report

Secondary Tuberculosis of Breast: Case Report

Breast Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis of breast: an Indian scenario

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