An Unexpected Site of a Familiar Foe: A Rare Case of Nipple Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is one of very common killer infectious disease in low income and developing countries India and Africa. Although the incidence of Tuberculosis of lung is high in these countries, tuberculosis of breast and in particular tuberculosis of nipple and areola is very rare. Constitutional symptoms are usually not present making its diagnosis even more difficult. It can be primary or secondary with tuberculosis focus somewhere else in the body. Here we present a case of primary tuberculosis of nipple with pustular discharge.