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KMID : 0374019930160040401
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Ewha Medical Journal
1993 Volume.16 No. 4 p.401 ~ p.406
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Tuberculosis of Breast
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Abstract
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Tuberculosis of the breast is an extremity rare disease in western countries and about 0.5% among entire breast in Korea and most of which involved persons between 20 to 40 years of age in female but it rarely developed in male, elderly patient
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prepubertal woman. It may be primary-confined to the breast or secondary to tuberculosis elsewhere because of it's diagnostic difficult. Tuberculosis of breast is confused to actinomycosis infection . abscess and carcinoma.
So, it is only diagnosed by histopathologic finding or inoculation in experimental animal. I expirienced 3 cases of tuberculosis the breast in 23 years which were treated with antibiotics. Antiuberculosis medicaton and combined with surgical
excision.
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