Case Report
Diabetic mastopathy: A clinical and radiological challenge
South African Journal of Radiology | Vol 14, No 4 | a457 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajr.v14i4.457
| © 2010 Debra Ardath Meerkotter, Grace Rubin
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 24 February 2010 | Published: 07 December 2010
Submitted: 24 February 2010 | Published: 07 December 2010
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Debra Ardath Meerkotter, regional imaging tasmania, AustraliaGrace Rubin, Helen Joseph Hospital, South Africa
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A 41-year-old woman presented with a lump above the right areola. She also complained of a burning and heavy sensation of the right breast of recent onset. On further history, the patient was an insulin-dependent diabetic of 35 years’ duration. She had no family history of breast disease. On examination, a palpable thickening above the right areola was detected.
Bilateral mammography revealed dense fibro-glandular tissue, denser in the right retro-areolar region than the left, with right peri-areolar skin thickening. There was no discreet mass nor suspicious microcalcifications or axillary adenopathy. Ultrasound (US) demonstrated an ill-defined peri-areolar region of decreased echogenicity and posterior shadowing. Core biopsy under US guidance showed abundant thick collagen bands containing epitheloid fibroblasts and a stroma with small capillary-sized and larger muscularised blood vessls, some of which contained peri-vascular lymphocytic inflammatory cells. Small ductal elements and an occasional lobule showed a peri-ductal and a peri- and intra-lobular lymhocytic and plasma cell infiltrate. These features were in keeping with sclerosing lymphocytic mastitis, known also as diabetic mastopathy.
Bilateral mammography revealed dense fibro-glandular tissue, denser in the right retro-areolar region than the left, with right peri-areolar skin thickening. There was no discreet mass nor suspicious microcalcifications or axillary adenopathy. Ultrasound (US) demonstrated an ill-defined peri-areolar region of decreased echogenicity and posterior shadowing. Core biopsy under US guidance showed abundant thick collagen bands containing epitheloid fibroblasts and a stroma with small capillary-sized and larger muscularised blood vessls, some of which contained peri-vascular lymphocytic inflammatory cells. Small ductal elements and an occasional lobule showed a peri-ductal and a peri- and intra-lobular lymhocytic and plasma cell infiltrate. These features were in keeping with sclerosing lymphocytic mastitis, known also as diabetic mastopathy.
Keywords
breast;mammography;ultrasound;diabetes
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