Evaluation of follow-up strategies for corticosteroid therapy of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis

Surgery Today

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 333-337

  Sakurai, Kenichi ^a   Fujisaki, Shigeru ^b   Enomoto, Katsuhisa ^a   Amano, Sadao ^a   Sugitani, Masahiko ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Fujisaki Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast; Cancer; Corticosteroid; Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOMATOUS MASTITIS; HUMAN; MASTALGIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GRANULOMATOUS MASTITIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 79955940328     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-009-4292-2     Document Type: Article

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