Characteristics of surgically treated benign breast disease

Abstract

To know the characteritics of benign breast diseases which were treated surgically. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study included 58 patients with benign breast disease who were treated surgically from January 2015 to December 2016. Patients who did not required surgery were excluded. All the data from record section were collected in predesigned proforma by observation of the files and operation notes of patient. Results: Majority of patients with benign breast disease, who were treated surgically, had fibro adenoma. The disease was more common in the age group 10-19 years with mean age 24.69 years. Lump was present in all the patients which was painless in more than half of the patients and the duration was less than 12 months in most of the cases. The most common site was upper outer quadrant and side was right.

Clinical spectrum study of female patients with benign breast diseases in surgery department of tertiary care centre

“…60.3% didn't have pain at the time of presentation. 6 Similar result were found in Kumar et al and Janaki et al 7,10 In the similar study by Kumar et al out of 425 patients, 181 (47.63%) had right sided breast involvement while 151 (39.73%) patients had left breast involvement whereas bilateral involvement was seen in 48 (12.63%) patients. 10 In a study conducted by Kumar et al, 35 out of 58 patients had lump in upper outer quadrant while 10 patients had lower outer quadrant lump, rest of the patients had lump extending to more than one quadrant of her breast including nipple-areolar complex.…”

“…8 were soft while 13 were hard in consistency. 6 Laxman et al found maximum patients (58%) had large fibroadenomas. Minimum cases (14%) had giant fibroadenomas.…”

“…10 In a study conducted by Kumar et al, 35 out of 58 patients had lump in upper outer quadrant while 10 patients had lower outer quadrant lump, rest of the patients had lump extending to more than one quadrant of her breast including nipple-areolar complex. 6 Laxman et al studied 50 patients and found 34% cases had upper lateral quadrant fibroadenoma. 11 The 8% of cases had lower medial quadrant fibroadenoma, 26% patients had fibroadenoma in lower lateral quadrant, 20%, patients had fibroadenoma in upper medial quadrant.…”