| a clinicopathological review of 34 cases of inflammatory breast disease showing an association between corynebacteria infection and granulomatous mastitis. | granulomatous mastitis is a rare condition of unknown aetiology. the great majority of cases has not been associated with bacterial pathogens if women with mammary tuberculosis are excluded. we noted that some women in auckland with a histological diagnosis of granulomatous mastitis had both microbiological and histological evidence of corynebacteria infection and aimed to study this further. | 2003 | 12745457 |