Tuberculosis of the breast masquerading as breast cancer

L Peiris; N Alam; A Agrawal

doi:10.1093/jscr/2012.10.1

Tuberculosis of the breast masquerading as breast cancer

J Surg Case Rep. 2012 Oct 1;2012(10):1. doi: 10.1093/jscr/2012.10.1.

Authors

L Peiris¹, N Alam¹, A Agrawal¹

Affiliation

¹ Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, UK.

Abstract

A 57-year-old female from Ghana was found to have fungating breast lesion and treated for breast cancer with empirical chemotherapy in her home country. On presentation to our breast surgical department in the UK, triple assessment and core biopsy showed the fungating mass to be a caseating granuloma in keeping with Tuberculosis infection.