Risk Factors for Chronic Mastitis in Morocco and Egypt

• Main Authors: Hanna N. Oltean (Author), Amr S. Soliman (Author), Omar S. Omar (Author), Tamer F. Youssef (Author), Mehdi Karkouri (Author), Azza Abdel-Aziz (Author), Ahmad Hablas (Author), Taylor Blachley (Author), Ali Tahri (Author), Sofia D. Merajver (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Chronic mastitis is a prolonged inflammatory breast disease, and little is known about its etiology. We identified 85 cases and 112 controls from 5 hospitals in Morocco and Egypt. Cases were women with chronic mastitis (including periductal, lobular, granulomatous, lymphocytic, and duct ectasia with...