Wani Imtiaz, Lone Ali M, Malik Rayees, Wani Khursheed A, Wani Rauf A, Hussain Irfan, Thakur Natasha, Snabel Vilam
Department of General Surgery, Sheri-Kashmir Institute of Medical sciences, Srinagar, Kashmir 190011, India.
ISRN Surg. 2011;2011:529368. doi: 10.5402/2011/529368. Epub 2011 Apr 6.
Tuberculosis of breast is a rare disease which is difficult to differentiate from carcinoma of breast. The involvement of breast can be primary or secondary to some focus in body. A case of secondary tuberculosis of right breast in a 21-year-old female from Kashmir, India, is being reported. Presentation was as a painless discharging sinus of right breast. A tubercular foci of rib was the affecting source of disease. No other evidence of tuberculosis was present in the body. Resection of involved rib segment, along with the discharging sinus, was performed. The patient had antitubercular therapy for 9 months, with no recurrence seen in followup.