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Tuberculosis of the breast in a patient undergoing hemodialysis

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A 61-year-old female patient with diabetes undergoing maintenance hemodialysis presented with fever and swelling of her right breast. She had been unresponsive to nonspecific antimicrobial therapies. Breast tuberculosis and tuberculous lymphadenitis were diagnosed by excision biopsy and tissue culture. A combination antituberculous treatment including isoniazid, rifampin, ethambutol, and pyrazinamide was started and resulted in the remission of the lesions by the end of the first month of therapy.

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  1. Department of Nephrology, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ibni Sina Hospital, 06100, Ankara, Turkey

    Ozan Yazici, Pinar Mescigil, Sule Sengul & Sehsuvar Ertürk

  2. Department of Surgery, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

    Ilknur Kepenekci

  3. Department of Pathology, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

    Pinar Celepli

  4. Department of Infectious Diseases, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

    Alpay Azap

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Yazici, O., Mescigil, P., Kepenekci, I. et al. Tuberculosis of the breast in a patient undergoing hemodialysis. Int Urol Nephrol 43, 241–244 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11255-010-9731-x

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