Jane Scott and colleagues have recently published a paper in the International Breastfeeding Journal showing that health professionals are still giving harmful advice to women with mastitis. We see the management of mastitis as an illustration of health professionals' management of wider breastfeeding issues. If health professionals don't know how to manage this common problem, how can they be ...

Non-obstetrical surgery during the first trimester is stressful to both the mother and the fetus. Anesthesiologists are also stressed, not only because of the effects of surgery itself, but also because of the uncertain influences of anesthesia thrown upon on the fetus. The authors present a case of breast surgery successfully performed on a woman 8 weeks pregnant requiring removal of breast ab...

resolved and the follow-up period was two months. Both adolescents had no history of diabetes, smoking, sexual activity, or corticosteroid/contraceptive use. The age of menarche in both girls was 11 years. Predisposing factors for mastitis and breast abscess include skin lesions, mammary duct ectasia, trauma related to sexual foreplay, nipple piercing, and shaving or plucking periareolar hair [...

Purpose: To evaluate the radiologic findings of breast tuberculosis. Materials and Methods: The authors evaluated the radiologic findings of five cases of surgically confirmed tuberculosis of the breast. Patients were examined with mammography (n=5), ultrasonography (n=3), and MRI (n=2). AII patients were female. Four patients had unilateral lesion and the remaining one patient had bilateral br...

introduction: an otogenic brain abscess is a common ent problem but an otogenic trapezius abscess can also be experienced in otolaryngological practice, particularly in patients with chronic suppurative otitis media.   case report: we report a rare case of a trapezius abscess in an eight-year-old girl who presented at the ent, head and neck surgery postgraduate medical institute, lady reading h...

Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is a rare chronic inflammatory disease of the breast, and its etiology remains not fully elucidated. IGM is observed more often in patients with autoimmune disease. Hyperprolactinemia is observed during pregnancy, lactation, and a history of oral contraceptive use. A 39-year-old patient with no history of oral contraceptive use presented with complaints s...

Mastitis is inflammation of the breast that may be caused by a bacterial infection. Infection phenomenon often occurs in breastfeeding mothers, mastitis certainly requires immediate and appropriate treatment, not handled properly can affect breastfeeding. This study aims to review management mastitis. Delayed, inappropriate inadequate treatment lead recurrence, more extensive lesions, even tiss...

Background: Throughout life period of female, breast is subjected to constant physical and physiological alterations that are related puberty, menstrual cycle, pregnancy, lactation, menopause. Benign diseases (BBD) constitute a heterogeneous group lesions which include developmental abnormalities, inflammatory granulomatous lesions, epithelial stromal proliferations, neoplasms.Methods: This pro...

BACKGROUND In Ghana data on breast disease is lacking. OBJECTIVE To describe the type of complaints presented at a specialist clinic. STUDY DESIGN A prospective descriptive study. SETTING The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Breast Care Centre (KATH-BCC) METHOD: Data including the age, type of complaints, the clinical, radiological and histological diagnosis was obtained and recorded from a...