Diabetic mastopathy: diagnosis and treatment

Seminars of Diabetes - Vol.24 N.3  may-june 2008
Á. Martínez Agulló¹, A. Caballero Garate², C. Lloret Pastor³, O. Burgués Gasión⁴, F.J. Ampudia-Blasco⁵

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Abstract

Diabetic mastopathy includes a number of structural alterations of breast gland, no well identified since many years and which has been described besides other entities with the name of «granulomatous mastitis». It is an infrequent disease, which affects usually premenopausal women with type 1 diabetes of long duration. It is a benign lesion, non progressive and which will not predispose to breast cancer. The diabetic mastopathy should be considered as an additional chronic complication of diabetes of long duration as diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy, etc. The major interest remains to establish the differential diagnosis against breast cancer. The etiology of the diabetic mastopathy is not clarified enough, although an association with other autoimmune diseases has been suggested.

Correspondence

Correspondencia: Á. Martínez Agulló. Servicio de Cirugía General. Hospital Clínico Universitario de
Valencia. Avda. Blasco Ibáñez, 17. 46010 Valencia. Correo electrónico:
ammartinezagullo@hotmail.com

Keywords

breast cancer diabetes mellitus type 1 diabetes mellitus diabetic mastopathy

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