eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Medical Sciences and Medicine 2327-6657 2013-11-13 1 5 83 85 10.12691/ajmsm-1-5-2 AJMSM2013152 article Jalal Vahedian 1 Ali Zare Mehrjardi 2 Ehsan Saraee 3 Amir Saraee dr.a.saraee@gmail.com 3 General Surgery Department, Firoozgar Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran Pathology Department, Firoozgar Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is an uncommon chronic inflammatory lesion of the breast, which is sometimes misdiagnosed as breast cancer or breast abscess. We present a 30-year old woman who came to our clinic with a recurrent and multiple abscesses in her left breast. After twice incision and drainage of the abscess, and after pathologic diagnosis of IGM, she was treated with prednisolone and responded dramatically. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajmsm/1/5/2/ajmsm-1-5-2.pdf idiopathic granulomatous mastitisbreast abscesstuberculous mastitis