DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2013.v01i03.014

Pages: 98-100

Breast tuberculosis is a rare form of tuberculosis. This is a mistaken identity with breast cancer and pyogenic breast abscess. The incidence of tubercular mastitis although decreasing in the West, could show resurgence with the global pandemic of AIDS. Breast tuberculosis has no defined clinical features. Radiological imaging is not diagnostic. Diagnosis is based on identification of typical histological features or the tubercle bacilli under microscopy or culture. Here we discuss unusual presentation of tuberculosis without active pulmonary component.