Tuberculous mastitis

ABSTRACT

Tuberculosis of breast has become a rare disease since the advent of antituberculous chemotherapy. The present studies depict clinical presentation, management and follow up of 38 cases of tuberculous mastitis It concludes that tuberculosis of breast should be suspected in any women with recurrent breast abscess, discharging sinuses and lump breast particularly if she fives in an endemic area of the disease. The diagnosis is confirmed by histology and/or bacteriological culture of pus or mammary tissue