ABSTRACT
Mastitis is a common clinical condition characterized by breast inflammation. The cause of mastitis could be acute or chronic infections, non-infectious inflammatory diseases or malignancy. Mastitis is easy to recognize clinically. However, in order to accurately determine the underlying etiology, radiological and clinical findings should be combined, the algorithmic approach should proceed from the simplest to the complex, and biopsy should not be avoided when necessary.
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