Table 2.

Treatment of the attacks of granulomatous mastitis in recurrent cases (n = 5)

Case	1st attack		2nd attack		3rd attack
	treatment	disease-free interval, months	treatment	disease-free interval, months	treatment	follow-up after healing, months
1	drainage	6	steroid/excision	6	–	6
2	drainage	10	steroid	72	–	72
3	drainage	4	excision	31	–	31
4	steroid	4	steroid	17	–	17
5	excision (L)	18	drainage/excision (R)	5	excision (L)	34

L = Left breast; R = right breast.