Breast
Infectious
Fungi
Author: Hind Warzecha, M.D.
Topic Completed: 1 April 2010
Minor changes: 31 December 2020
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PubMed Search: Breast [title] fungal infections
Cite this page: Warzecha H. Fungi. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/breastfungi.html. Accessed March 7th, 2021.
Terminology
- Fungal mastitis
Epidemiology
- Uncommon
Clinical features
- Actinomycosis may develop in nipple and cause formation of a sinus tract
- Report of saline filled breast implants contaminated with Curvularia in 5 patients (J Infect Dis 2005;192:170)
- Candida infection may interfere with breast feeding but Candida albicans is not present in milk ducts in women with clinical symptoms of ductal candidiasis (Breastfeed Med 2009;4:57)
Case reports
- Immunosuppressed patient with breast nodule due to coccidiomycosis (Arch Pathol Lab Med 1991;115:1064)
- Cryptococcus in HIV+ patient (J Infect 2008;57:82)
- Fusarium in 55 year old woman with diabetes (Indian J Med Microbiol 2005;23:198)
- Histoplasma capsulatum causing granulomatous mastitis (Hum Pathol 1989;20:47, Arch Pathol Lab Med 2006;130:e1)
- Trichophyton rubrum causing bilateral male breast enlargement (Breast 2006;15:263)
Clinical images
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Fusarium - clinical image and FNA smears
