A CASE OF WEBER-CHRISTIAN DISEASE WITH ROENTGENOGRAPHICALLY DEMONSTRABLE MAMMARY CALCIFICATIONS

A case is described in which mammary infiltrates appeared bilaterally during a quiescent period of Weber-Christian disease. Roentgenography showed calcifications within the palpated infiltrates. Four and a half years earlier the patient, a twenty-two year-old woman, had had an acute spell of fever and multiple subcutaneous nodules, and three months after the discovery of the mammary lesions she had another exacerbation of the basic disease with nodules, fever and physical distress, and fairly severe anemia. The patient, who was then pregnant, improved after spontaneous abortion, but did not recover completely until after recovery from subsequent complicating jaundice (inoculation hepatitis?). The lumps in the breasts decreased at the same time as the other subcutaneous infiltrates, but the calcifications did not disappear completely until two years later. © 1968.