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Inflammatory Lesions

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Mastitis is an inflammatory condition of the breast, which may or may not be accompanied by infection (WHO 2000). The condition is usually associated with lactation, the so-called lactational mastitis (Kvist et al. 2008; Scott et al. 2008) but can also arise in non-lactating women. Mastitis is defined as a red, tender, hot, swollen area of the breast, accompanied by one or more of the following:

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  1. Princess Elizabeth Hospital Le Vauquiedor St. Martin’s Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK

    Catherine N. Chinyama MBChB(Hons),FRCPath,IFCAP,LLM (Consultant Pathologist, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer)

  2. Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, England UK

    Catherine N. Chinyama MBChB(Hons),FRCPath,IFCAP,LLM (Consultant Pathologist, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer)

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Chinyama, C.N. (2014). Inflammatory Lesions. In: Benign Breast Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41065-9_6

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