Mammary tuberculosis mimicking breast cancer: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Maroulis, Ioannis ^a   Spyropoulos, Charalambos ^a   Zolota, Vasiliki ^a   Tzorakoleftherakis, Evaggelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; PYRIDOXINE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTITIS; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN EDEMA; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 45249088569     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-2-34     Document Type: Article

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