Long standing untreated multifocal cutaneous tuberculosis with development of breast carcinoma.

The article describes the case of a 35-year old female patient with long standing untreated multifocal cutaneous tuberculosis (TB) with development of breast carcinoma. The patient had ulceroproliferative lesions, hyperpigmented papules, matted lymphadenopathy and kyphoscoliosis and was treated with category 1 antituberculosis therapy. It describes three different types of associations between malignancy and TB.