Breast Tuberculosis in a Postmenopausal Woman With an Insidious Manner: A Case Report

Mammary tissue, skeletal muscle, and spleen are less frequently affected by mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB).The most common age for breast TB is between 50 and 70. On this article,we are reporting a 72-year-old womanwho presented with chronic cough, lobar consolidation in right middle lobe (RML) on...

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Main Authors: Pejman Zoroufchian Moghaddam, Shadi Ghourchian, Roozbeh Naghshin, Fatemeh Yahyapour
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Iran University of Medical Sciences 2011-05-01
Series:Medical Journal of The Islamic Republic of Iran
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Online Access:http://mjiri.tums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-143&slc_lang=en&sid=1