An Unusual Case of Cat-Scratch Disease from Bartonella quintana Mimicking Inflammatory Breast Cancer in a 50-Year-Old Woman

Breast Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 497-500

  Povoski, Stephen P ^a   Spigos, Dimitrios G ^a   Marsh, William L ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bartonella henselae; Bartonella quintana; Breast; Breast cancer; Cat scratch disease; Lymphadenopathy; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; GADOLINIUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTITIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIOGRAPHY; SKIN BIOPSY;

AXILLA; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0242637629     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4741.2003.09615.x     Document Type: Article

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