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Objectives: Mastalgia is a common presentation in breast new patient clinic in the UK and poses significant pressure on the utilisation of breast services. A prospective descriptive study was carried out to evaluate the prevalence of breast pain, aetiology and associated pattern of health care utilisation. Method: We assessed the aetiology of breast pain in a clinic based sample using a questio...

To test the traditional surgical view that pain in the breast is largely an expression of psychoneurosis, the Middelesex Hospital Questionnaire was given to 317 women with mastalgia and 170 controls with varicose veins. Their scores were compared with those of 173 women psychiatric outpatients tested by the designers of the questionnaire. The results were broadly similar in the mastalgia and va...

The buoyant forces of water during aquatic exercise may provide a form of 'natural' breast support and help to minimise breast motion and alleviate exercise induced breast pain. Six larger-breasted females performed standing vertical land and water-based jumps, whilst wearing three breast support conditions. Underwater video cameras recorded the motion of the trunk and right breast. Trunk and r...

Mastalgia has neither an organic etiology nor any definitive treatment, which affects women’s quality of life during their reproductive lives. Considering mastalgia as one of the psychosomatic disorder, mind–body interventions such as yoga would play an important role. This review is an effort to give a yogic concept in understanding the anatomy and physiology of the subtle aspects of human min...

Paraffin and petrolatum have been known for more than 100 years as volumizing products. Certain countries still use them despite important complications. The authors report the case of a 39-year-old patient presenting a bilateral oleogranulomatous mastitis. An injection of petrolatum had been realized 2 years ago in Chechnya for cosmetic reasons. Clinically, she presented dense, erythemic, and ...

improvements may be explained on the basis of the general weight-loss but the bilateral mastectomy, by increasing the compliance of the chest wall, may also have contributed. It is not considered that this case supports a policy of surgical removal of adipose tissue in all cases of obesity. It is felt, however, that such treatment, namely bilateral mastectomy in post-menopausal obese patients w...

OBJECTIVE The purposes of this study were to determine the coexistence of mastalgia and fibromyalgia, to investigate the effects of this combination on pain patterns, and to discuss the status of breast pain in the diagnostic algorithm of fibromyalgia syndrome. METHODS Sixty-one female patients reporting breast pain during the last three months and 53 female patients diagnosed with fibromyalg...

DESCRIPTION A 48-year-old woman, 34 weeks status post primary cosmetic bilateral breast augmentation, presented with right double-bubble deformity. The patient reported persistent right breast pain, particularly on contraction of the right pectoralis muscle.

OBJECTIVE To investigate Candida species and Staphylococcus aureus and the development of 'nipple and breast thrush' among breastfeeding women. DESIGN Prospective longitudinal cohort study. SETTING Two hospitals in Melbourne, Australia (one public, one private) with follow-up in the community. PARTICIPANTS 360 nulliparous women recruited at ≥36 weeks' gestation from November 2009 to June ...