Granulomatous mastitis: Is it an autoimmune disease? Diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas

Surgery Today

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 729-733

  Özel, Leyla ^a   Ünal, Aysun ^a   Ünal, Ethem ^a   Kara, Melih ^a   Erdoǧdu, Erdal ^a   Krand, Osman ^a   Günes, Pembegül ^a   Karagül, Hikmet ^a   Demiral, Serdar ^a   Titiz, M Izzet ^a  

^a GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Autoimmune disease; Corticosteroid therapy; Granulomatous mastitis

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BREAST SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOUS MASTITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPEREMIA; MASTALGIA; NEEDLE BIOPSY; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEROLOGY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; BREAST; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRANULOMATOUS MASTITIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 84863983424     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-011-0046-z     Document Type: Article

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