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- Mondor's disease is a rare condition involving inflammation of veins in the breast and chest wall, typically benign but rarely linked to cancer.
- A 32-year-old breastfeeding woman presented with left breast pain and was initially treated for mastitis without improvement; her exam revealed an enlarged breast and a painful vein.
- After ultrasound confirmation of a dilated vein, she received therapy that improved her pain, and follow-up showed healing four weeks later.
Article Abstract
Mondor's disease is a rare entity characterized by sclerosing thrombophlebitis classically involving one or more of the subcutaneous veins of the breast and anterior chest wall. It is usually a self-limited, benign condition, despite of rare cases of association to cancer. We present the case of a 32 year-old female, breast-feeding, who went to emergency due to left mastalgia for the past week. She was taking antibiotics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, previously prescribed for suspicious of mastitis, for three days, with no clinical improvement. Physical examination showed an enlarged left breast, an axillary lump and a painful cord-like structure in the upper outer quadrant of the same breast. Ultrasound scan showed a markedly dilated superficial vein in the upper outer quadrant of left breast. The patient was given a ventropic therapy and was kept in anti-inflammatory, with progressive pain improvement. Ultrasound control was performed after four weeks, showing reperfusion.
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