The importance of pain as a presenting symptom of breast cancer has been assessed in a series of 240 patients with operable breast cancer over four years. From an analysis of the case histories of 36 patients the diagnosis proved difficult in one-quarter of the cancers. This is explained by the high incidence of subclinical and lobular carcinoma in the group. Cancer must be seriously considered...

Three hundred and fifty women complaining of breast pain symptoms of sufficient severity to interfere with their normal lifestyle were reviewed in a special breast pain clinic over a 5 year period. Seventy-two patients (21%) had spontaneous resolution of breast pain and they required reassurance only before discharge. Of the remaining 278 patients, accurate classification of breast pain syndrom...

There have been many treatments suggested for the management of mastalgia; one of these is the fruit extract of Vitex Agnus castus L. commonly known as Agnus castus, an extract of a deciduous shrub native to Mediterranean Europe and Central Asia. It is postulated that A. castus suppresses the stress-induced latent hyperprolactinemia which is a release of supra-physiological levels of prolactin ...

BACKGROUND Breast tuberculosis (breast TB) is an extremely rare disease, so case reviews are also rare. METHODS This study is a retrospective review of patients with breast TB who were treated between 2002 and 2012 at the Health Center of Gorgan City. RESULTS All 22 patients were females, their mean age was 32.4 years, and all were new cases. Patients presented with swelling of the breast (...

Cyclic mastalgia of varying intensity occurs every month in at least 70% women, persistent pain the mammary glands moderate and severe degree is occur about 50% patients with benign mastopathy. The cause mastodynia morphofunctional rearrangement glandular stromal components tissues expansion ducts proliferation epithelial structures due to a lack progesterone an increase prolactin levels. Thera...

INTRODUCTION Vitex agnus-castus, also called vitex is aboriginal to the Mediterranean region, with long leaves, tender stem, flowers and ripening seeds. The aim of this study was to overview premenstrual, postmenstrual and infertility disorder of Vitex agnus-castus. METHODS This review article was carried out by searching studies in PubMed, Medline, Web of Science, and IranMedex databases. Th...

PURPOSE We aimed to identify factors that might help differentiate phyllodes tumors from fibroadenomas among cases in which a fibroepithelial breast lesion was diagnosed from core needle biopsy (CNB) under imaging guidance. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective review was performed on 213 lesions in 200 patients who had undergone both CNB and excisional biopsy during a four-year period betwee...

Women with breast disorders often present first to their internists for evaluation. A delay in accurate diagnosis could often result in worsening of prognosis for the patient. Common diagnostic problems include evaluation of a breast lump, nipple discharge and breast pain. Internist now has a choice of several diagnostic modalities to evaluate breast disorders. An evidence-based approach to com...

ANDI (Aberration of normal development and involution) classification covers most of the benign breast conditions as a result of hormonal influence. Prolactin plays an important role in normal proliferation and differentiation of breast epithelium. The objective of this hospital based study was to find out clinical presentation and prolactin level of ANDI patients. Total 330 patients with diffe...

Report of the cases Details of 10 patients are summarised in Table I. All were negro females and presented with painful breast lumps. In 2 patients (Cases I and 10) carcinoma was suspected clinically because of skin tethering over the lump and palpable axillary lymph nodes. In the others the clinical diagnosis was fibroadenoma. All were solitary lesions confined to one breast and none had a his...