Medical and surgical treatment of idiopathic granulomatous lobular mastitis: A benign inflammatory disease mimicking invasive carcinoma

Journal of Breast Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 119-123

  Gurleyik, Gunay ^a   Aktekin, Ali ^a   Aker, Fugen ^a   Karagulle, Hikmet ^a   Saglam, Abdullah ^a  

^a Haydarpasa Numune Teaching and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breast; Carcinoma; Corticosteroid; Mastectomy; Mastitis

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOUS MASTITIS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC GRANULOMATOUS LOBULAR MASTITIS; IMAGING; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MAMMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 84859371228     PISSN: 17386756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4048/jbc.2012.15.1.119     Document Type: Article

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