Coexistence of breast cancer and tuberculosis in axillary lymph nodes: A case report and literature review

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1037-1042

  Akbulut, Sami ^a   Sogutcu, Nilgun ^a   Yagmur, Yusuf ^a  

^a Diyarbakir Education and Research Hospital ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Axillary lymph nodes; Breast cancer; Tuberculosis; Tuberculous lymphadenitis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SIZE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISTANT METASTASIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LYMPHADENITIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTALGIA; MASTECTOMY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; AXILLA; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

EID: 82255162756     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-011-1634-8     Document Type: Article

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