Maligne Brusterkrankungen als Differenzsaldiagnosen von Brustentzundungen

摘要

Inflammatory diseases in the female breast are mainly caused by bacterial infection of the mammary gland tissue. The infections may be etiologi-cally and temporally associated with birth and lactation, or may occur independently of the puer-perium. Local inflammatory phenomena are the main factors determining the extremely painful symptoms, which are sometimes associated with general symptoms (fever). Requiring differentiation from mastitis and abscess formation in the female breast, a similar clinical picture may be caused by benign skin changes (erysipelas, venous thrombosis, scleroderma, panniculitis, neuroder-matitis, allergy, and trauma) and also malignant diseases (inflammatory breast cancer, paget's disease, leukemic infiltration, and paraneoplastic der-matosis).