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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY
Volume 136, Issue 3, Pages 424-427Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1309/AJCP1W9JBRYOQSNZ
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Breast abscess; Bacteria; Corynebacterium; Granuloma; Gram-positive bacilli
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Although granulomatous lobular mastitis is associated with gram-positive bacilli such as Corynebacterium, this association is not well known. We report 3 cases of mastitis caused by gram-positive bacilli. All 3 abscesses were suppurative with distinct enlarged cystic spaces in which rare gram-positive bacilli were identified. Two cases were also granulomatous. Cultures in all 3 cases were negative. All 3 patients recovered after biopsy and tetracycline-based therapy. Infection in the breast by gram-positive bacilli is associated with a distinct histologic pattern, including cystic spaces in the setting of neutrophilic/granulomatous inflammation that can be recognized and should prompt careful search for the organism within enlarged vacuoles.
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