BENIGN BREAST DISEASES IN NORTH CHENNAI WOMEN POPULATION
Sreedevi B.V. · Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences · 2014
Benign breast disease is more common prevailing condition among women population than cancer breast.About half of the women population suffers from benign breast diseases in their life time.A tendency to hide or unveil the complaints about the breast among the Indian women population has led to decreased statistics and hence this study was conducted.Method: Cross sectional analysis of the women who attended outpatient department were taken into study.200 patients who attended outpatient with breast complaints were examined and analyzed.Result: 110 patients presented with mastalgia, 86 patients presented with breast mass, 14 patients presented with nipple discharge.Of these, 110 patients were further evaluated and found out the cause of mastalgia.Conclusion: Non-cyclical mastalgia was found to be the commonest presentation among the breast complaints.