Volume : 6, Issue : 5, May - 2017

Clinicopathological Profile of Benign Breast Disease at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Western Rajasthan

Bharti Saraswat, Anant Vyas

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;OBJECTIVE: To characterize clinicopathological variations of Benign Breast Diseases in Western Rajasthan. METHODS: Prospective study of six hundred females who attended the Surgery OPD, with any forms of east complaints during the period from January 2016 to December 2016. A specially designed proforma was used to record the findings of history, clinical examination and pathological examination and the data was analysed to study the details of benign east diseases in the group surveyed. RESULTS: Of 600 patients studied 136 cases were found to have definitive evidence of Benign Breast Diseases in which Fioadenoma was the most common lesion with 53 cases (8.83%), occurring at a mean age of 16-32 years, next was fiocystic changes with 38 cases (6.33%) at a mean age of 23-45 years. Inflammatory lesions constituted 39 cases (6.5%) which included Abscess, chronic mastitis and tubercular mastitis. Other lesions made up less than 1% each. Benign east lesions peaked at the 18-28 age range and then declined. CONCLUSION: In our study, 600 females were examined and 136 cases were observed to have benign east diseases. Most females belonged to younger age groups below 35 years of age. Benign conditions of east are common and have an incidence of 22.6%. &nbsp;Fioadenoma was the most common benign lesion followed by fiocystic disease.</p>