“…Considering the studies conducted in our country, the PA rate was reported as 79.1% (Sungur et al, 2002), 60.3% (Kizil et al, 2013) and as 58.5% (Gunizi and Guney, 2013). The PA rates; reported from Brazil (Vargas et al, 2002) was 79.4%, from Taiwan (Lin et al, 2008) was 51%, from Pakistan (Ali et al, 2010) was 78%, from Korea was 61.6%, from Japan (Kawata et al, 2012) was 49%. In our study, 68.5% of benign pathologies in female and 50% in male was PA. We detected a PA rate of 61.6% in both genders.…”