SCLEROSING LYMPHOCYTIC LOBULITIS OF THE BREAST

Eight patients are described who had palpable breast lumps with clinic al and imaging features suspicious of malignancy which proved to be sc lerosing lymphocytic lobulitis on histological examination. In this se ries the typical mammographic appearance of this condition was increas ed parenchymal density and/or localized stromal distortion while on ul trasound, the typical appearance was an ill-defined mass with distal a coustic shadowing. This rare benign condition has been described in as sociation with longstanding insulin-dependent diabetes or autoimmune d isease, but four of our eight patients had no such medical history.