Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918
CASE REPORTS
A Rare Case of Diabetic Mastopathy in a Japanese Man with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Hiroshi AkahoriMami KanekoKaoru KiyoharaShintarou TerahataTatsuho Sugimoto
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2009 Volume 48 Issue 11 Pages 915-919

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We report a case of diabetic mastopathy in a man with type 2 diabetes. The patient was a 62-year-old man who had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at the age of 46 years. He had been treated with oral hypoglycemic agents. He noticed a mass in his left breast in February 2007, when HbA1c was 7.6% with the treatment using oral hypoglycemic agents, including acarbose, glimepiride, buformine, and pioglitazone. Mammography of the breast showed increased density, and ultrasonography showed a regular-shaped hypoechoic mass. Core needle biopsy was performed, and diabetic mastopathy was confirmed pathologically. Diabetic mastopathy usually occurs in women with type 1 diabetes. This case, a man with type 2 diabetes, is very rare.

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