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Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis with erythema nodosum and polyarthritis

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Received: 30 October 2015
Accepted: 12 July 2016
Published: 9 September 2016
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A 25 year-old woman presented with a painful mass in the left breast, polyarthritis and erythema nodosum. Fine needle aspiration cytology led to a diagnosis of granulomatous mastitis. Oral prednisolone rapidly improved the arthritis and the erythema nodosum. Granulomatous mastitis is a very rare, chronic inflammatory disease and only ten patients with granulomatous mastitis with erythema nodosum and polyarthitis have been described.

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Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis with erythema nodosum and polyarthritis. Reumatismo [Internet]. 2016 Sep. 9 [cited 2025 Dec. 3];68(2):97-9. Available from: https://www.reumatismo.org/reuma/article/view/844