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Granulomatous mastitis diagnosed and followed up by fine-needle aspiration cytology, and successfully treated by corticosteroid therapy: Report of a case

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A 36-year-old woman presented to our hospital with a rapidly growing lump in her left breast. Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology of the mass revealed many epithelioid cells admixed with multinucleated Langhans-type giant cells, neutrophils, lymphocytes, and stromal cells, leading to a diagnosis of granulomatous mastitis. This report describes the clinical course of this patient in whom granulomatous mastitis was successfully treated with corticosteroid therapy. Special reference is made to the usefulness of FNA cytology in the diagnosis and follow-up of this disease.

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  1. First Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, 812-82, Fukuoka, Japan

    Norihiro Sato, Naoto Kozaki, Yasuyuki Watanabe, Takao Ohtsuka, Syoji Kuroki, Yuji Nakafusa, Kazuo Chijiiwa & Masao Tanaka

  2. Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, 812-82, Fukuoka, Japan

    Masayuki Ota

  3. Noguchi Thyroid Clinic and Hospital Foundation, 6-33 Noguchi-Nakamachi, 874, Beppu Oita, Japan

    Hiroyuki Yamashita

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Sato, N., Yamashita, H., Kozaki, N. et al. Granulomatous mastitis diagnosed and followed up by fine-needle aspiration cytology, and successfully treated by corticosteroid therapy: Report of a case. Surg Today 26, 730–733 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00312095

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