The diagnosis and management of diabetic mastopathy.

Sclerosing lymphocytic lobulitis is strongly associated with type one diabetes, when it is then known as diabetic mastopathy. This very rare benign condition tends to present in premenopausal women, often with diabetic complications particularly retinopathy. Patients present with clinically suspicious fibrous breast lumps; these are commonly multiple, bilateral, and recurrent.

Radioguided occult lesion localisation (ROLL) is available in the UK for impalpable breast lesions.

Introduction: To test the feasibility and reliability of ROLL in a district general hospital (DGH) dealing with screening detected breast lesions.

Patients And Methods: [(99m) Tc]-labelled colloidal human serum albumin was injected in the core of the breast lesion under ultrasound or stereotactic guidance 2-4 h prior to surgery. At operation, the radioactivity is localised using a gamma-probe.