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...

Breast pain (mastalgia) is a common complaint, with a potentially important relationship to breast cancer risk. We have examined the association between mastalgia and breast cancer in the patient population of the Breast Care Center of University Hospital, Syracuse, New York. Of 5463 women with complete breast cancer risk factor information, 1532 (28%) reported breast pain as an incidental comp...

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...

The objective of the work was to study the clinical profile of Benign Breast Diseases (BBD) and their correlation with ultrasonographic and histopathological findings at a tertiary care centre in Central India. The present study was conducted in the Department of Surgery, Radiodiagnosis and Pathology at G R Medical College and J A Group of hospitals, Gwalior (MP) from November 2012 to October 2...