Objective:

To describe the sociodemographic data, clinical manifestations, paraclinical and treatment, among the series of patients diagnosed with granulomatous mastitis.

Method:

A descriptive, retrospective study of an institutional database between January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2019. Data from medical records of demographic, clinical and paraclinical data were collected and analyzed using descriptive statistics.

Results:

The prevalence in the sample was 2.12%, all cases were women, mixed race, the mean age at diagnosis was 30.4 years, the most frequent reason for consultation was inflammatory breast changes (12, 66.7%), followed by mass (5, 27.8%). Most of the patients received antibiotics as initial treatment (13, 72.2%), steroid therapy (8, 44.4%) and methotrexate (2, 11.1%), while 3 patients (16.7%) underwent surgery. Resolution occurred on average in 7 months and 5 patients (27.8%) had recurrence.

Conclusions:

Granulomatous mastitis affects women of childbearing age, presents with inflammatory changes and pain, tends to present a chronic evolution with some episodes of recurrence and spontaneous resolution in almost all cases.

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