TY - JOUR
T1 - Diabetic mastopathy as a radiographically occult palpable breast mass
AU - Thanarajasingam, Uma
AU - Chen, Beiyun
AU - Tortorelli, Cindy L.
AU - Jakub, James W.
AU - Ghosh, Karthik
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Diabetic mastopathy is an uncommon, benign disease of the breast that can occur in women with diabetes and clinically mimic breast cancer. We describe a patient with long-standing type 1 diabetes who presented with a palpable breast mass with negative imaging findings on mammography, ultrasonography, and breast MRI. Surgical biopsy and histopathology confirmed diabetic mastopathy. We use this case to highlight the recognition, radiographic features, pathology, and management of this benign breast condition and emphasize that, in diabetic patients, the differential diagnosis of a new breast mass should include diabetic mastopathy.
AB - Diabetic mastopathy is an uncommon, benign disease of the breast that can occur in women with diabetes and clinically mimic breast cancer. We describe a patient with long-standing type 1 diabetes who presented with a palpable breast mass with negative imaging findings on mammography, ultrasonography, and breast MRI. Surgical biopsy and histopathology confirmed diabetic mastopathy. We use this case to highlight the recognition, radiographic features, pathology, and management of this benign breast condition and emphasize that, in diabetic patients, the differential diagnosis of a new breast mass should include diabetic mastopathy.
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U2 - 10.1155/2011/162350
DO - 10.1155/2011/162350
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84921000806
SN - 1687-9627
VL - 2011
JO - Case Reports in Medicine
JF - Case Reports in Medicine
M1 - 162350
ER -