Plasma Cell Mastitis

Plasma-cell mastitis

“…Payne, Strauss, and Glasser (1943) declare that the term ' plasma-cell mastitis ' is superfluous and that the plasma cells are not pathognomonic of anything; they prefer to continue the term ' mastitis obliterans '. Parsons, Henthorne, and Clark (1944) found 5 cases out of 1500 specimens in Mississippi, but the clinical history was available in only 2 cases. Gaston (1947) recorded a case in which a comedo carcinoma was found to have developed in the presence of a plasmacell reaction ; he quotes this case and the metastasizing plasmocytoma reported by C. W. Cutler (1934) as support for the belief that plasma-cell mastitis may become malignant.…”

Plasma Cell Mastitis: Report of Two Cases

“…Adair (1933) described 10 cases which he had observed at the same hospital. Further reports appear in American literature by Rodman and Ingleby (1939), Miller (1939), Groman and Dockerly (1941), Payne, Strauss and Glassen (1943), Parsons, Henthorne and Clarke (1944), Gaston (1947). As far as I am able to determine, there is no report of this condition in the Australian literature.…”