Challa V R, Srivastava A, Dhar A
Department of Surgical Disciplines, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Med Microbiol. 2014 Jan-Mar;32(1):82-4. doi: 10.4103/0255-0857.124331.
Tuberculosis of breast is very rare with an incidence of 0.1-0.5%. It can be primary or secondary. Except in patients presenting with sinuses, it is a challenge to diagnose it. A 40 year old premenopausal lady presented with breast lump increasing in size for 3 months. Mammogram showed a lesion suspicious of malignancy and trucut biopsy showed necrotic material only. Intraoperatively there was caseous necrosis and the tract from breast was extending to rib. It is a rare case with few case reports been reported where a rib tuberculosis presents as a breast lump rather than retromammary abscess.
