Granulomatous mastitis diagnosed by core-needle biopsy and successfully treated with corticosteroid therapy: A case report

A 46-year-old woman presented to our hospital with a rapidly growing lump in her right breast. Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology and core needle biopsy of the mass revealed many epithelioid cells admixed with multinucleated Langhans-type giant cells, neutrophils, lymphocytes, and stromal cells, leading to a diagnosis of granulomatous mastitis. Mammography and ultrasonography provided little information for differentiating between granulomatous mastitis and carcinoma. This patient was successfully treated with low dose and short period of corticosteroid therapy.     

Methotrexate in the management of granulomatous mastitis

Granulomatous mastitis is a rare benign inflammatory breast disease that often clinically simulates carcinoma. Surgical resection of the entire lesion has been the main method of treatment but recurrence, infection, sinus formation and delayed wound healing can occur relatively commonly. Corticosteroids are also effective in recurrent or resistant cases but are associated with side-effects and relapse of disease after steroid withdrawal. A low weekly oral dose of methotrexate was used in five resistant cases after surgery plus corticosteroid. All cases achieved remission, withdrawal of corticosteroid without relapse and no methotrexate side-effect.     

急性乳腺炎的中西医结合疗法探讨

<正>急性乳腺炎俗称奶疖。细菌经过乳头裂口或糜烂面进入乳头下的淋巴管,侵入乳腺叶间引起的乳房蜂窝组织炎或通过乳腺管直接侵入乳腺而引发炎症。我院在1998年3月至2007年5月共收治23例急性乳腺炎患者,均采用中西医结合疗法取得满意疗效,现介绍如下。     

NORMAL MICROBICIDAL FUNCTION OF MONOCYTES IN A GIRL WITH CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE

ABSTRACT. Weemaes, C., (Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Leijh, P., Blusse van Oud Alblas, D., van der Meer, J. and van Furth, R. (Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital, Leiden, The Netherlands). Normal microbicidal function of monocytes in a girl with chronic granulomatous disease. Acta Paediatr Scand, 70:421, 1981.–The history of a 13-year-old girl with a syndrome resembling Chronic Granulomatous Disease (C.G.D.) is described. Metabolic studies in granulocytes and monocytes classified the patient as having C.G.D. The granulocytes failed to kill Staphylococcus aureus and Candida Albicans; however, the killing of these microorganisms by the patient's monocytes was nearly normal. Family studies revealed no abnormalities in the phagocytic cells of the parents and the siblings.     

Wegener's granulomatosis of the breast: a rare entity with daily clinical relevance

Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) is frequently diagnosed based on respiratory and renal manifestations. Breast involvement is rare. To date, approximately 27 cases of breast involvement by WG have been published. Most cases present in women between the third and seventh decades are unilateral and are accompanied by systemic manifestations of the disease. Although breast tissue is rarely affected by WG, the clinical presentation of these lesions requires that breast carcinoma be excluded from the clinical differential diagnosis. This publication is the most extensive review of the entity in the English literature in the last 3 decades.     

模拟克隆病的肉芽肿性肠炎动物模型的建立

４０只地鼠随机分为两组，实验组：２０只腹腔撞种副结核杆菌；对照组：２０只分别接种生理盐水和死菌（各１０只），８个月后处死动物，作病理学观察。结果：实验组８０％（１６／２０）的地鼠出现肉芽肿性肠炎，而对照组未见肉芽肿性肠炎和溃疡形成。两组肉芽肿性肠炎的发病率有显著性差异（Ｐ〈０．０５）。结果表明：利用副结核杆菌接种地鼠，建立了一个模拟克隆病的肉芽肿性肠炎小动物模型。     

Efficacy of immunization against bovine mastitis using a Staphylococcus aureus avirulent mutant vaccine

Bovine mastitis is responsible of major economic losses on dairy farms worldwide. In Argentine dairy herds, Staphylococcus aureus is the main causative agent of the disease.     

Yersinia colitis

A 2-year-old child with a febrile, nonbloody diarrheal illness of acute onset with repeatedly negative stool and blood cultures for pathogenic bacteria is presented. Sigmoidoscopic and roentgenographic studies revealed an inflammatory colitis. Fortunately, diagnostic perserverance and a high index of suspicion resulted in a positive stool culture forYersinia enterocolitica. Serologic study and clinical course provided data consistent with the diagnosis of an infections colitis due toYersinia enterocolitica. This case demonstrates the necessity to considerYersinia enterocolitica in the radiographic differential diagnosis of Crohn's disease of the colon or ulcerative colitis, as well as intractable diarrhea of childhood.     

Portal vein gas following air-contrast barium enema in granulomatous colitis: Report of a case

Portal vein gas developed in a patient with granulomatous colitis following air-contrast barium enema. No symptomatology or morbidity could be attributed to the portal vein gas in this patient.     

非哺乳期乳腺炎性病变的MRI诊断价值

目的探讨磁共振成像在非哺乳期乳腺炎性病变中的诊断价值。材料与方法回顾性分析经手术及穿刺病理证实且有完整MRI资料的非哺乳期乳腺炎性病变共83例,分别对病灶形态学、信号强度、表观扩散系数(apparent diffusion coefficient,ADC)值、强化特点及时间信号强度曲线(timeintensitycurve,TIC)类型进行评价及测量。结果 54例表现为肿块,包括单灶(29/54,53.7%)和多灶(25/54,46.3%),形态以不规则形为主(27/54,50.0%),边缘多不规则(27/54,50.0%)或清楚(21/54,38.9%),增强扫描呈不均匀强化(27/54,50.0%)或环形强化(27/54,50.0%)。29例表现为非肿块强化,分布方式以节段样强化为主(16/29,55.2%),增强扫描多呈不均匀强化(20/29,69.0%)。T2WI/IDEAL WATER (T2 weighted image/iteration decomposition of water with echo asymmetry and least-squares estimation)序列多表现为等信号(31/83,37.3%)或稍高信号(31/83,37.3%),扩散加权成像(diffusion weighted imaging,DWI)序列以稍高信号(33/83,39.8%)或高信号(46/83,55.4%)为主,平均ADC值为(1.15±0.30)×10-3 mm2/s。TIC类型以平台型为主(52/83,62.7%)。病灶内常伴有囊变及坏死区(54/83,65.1%)、灶周水肿(35/83,42.2%)、部分病灶伴出血(9/83,10.8%)。伴随征象包括邻近皮肤异常改变(30/83,36.1%)、胸壁异常改变(11/83,13.3%)、同侧腋窝淋巴结肿大(23/83,27.7%)。结论非哺乳期乳腺炎性病变在MR影像上具有一定特征性,与乳腺癌的鉴别诊断价值较大。