A CURIOUS CASE OF COLD ABSCESS MASQUERADING AS A BREAST LUMP
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A case report on a 36 year old woman who presented with a painless right breast lump of 3 months duration, which turned out to be a cold abscess and was drained and tissue sent for histopathology proved tuberculosis.
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