Reumatismo (Sep 2016)

Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis with erythema nodosum and polyarthritis

  • J. Alungal,
  • M.C. Abdulla,
  • R. Narayan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4081/reumatismo.2016.844
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 68, no. 2
pp. 97 – 99

Abstract

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A 25 year-old woman presented with a painful mass in the left breast, polyarthritis and erythema nodosum. Fine needle aspiration cytology led to a diagnosis of granulomatous mastitis. Oral prednisolone rapidly improved the arthritis and the erythema nodosum. Granulomatous mastitis is a very rare, chronic inflammatory disease and only ten patients with granulomatous mastitis with erythema nodosum and polyarthitis have been described.

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