European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

Benign breast disease is primarily a phenomenon seen in reproductive age group. They are
thought to be largely hormone induced. Benign breast disease is 4-5 times more common then
breast cancer. The study includes patient attending surgical outpatient department and
admitted to surgical wards with breast lump during the study period. Most of the patients
underwent excision-85 patient (77.27%) followed by microdochotomy-4 (3.63%)and I & D-4
(3.63%).Simple mastectomy also done in 4 (3.63%) patients. Wide excision biopsy was done
in 3 (2.72%) patient. Majority of the patients 90 patients (81.81%) did not have any postoperative
complications, whereas 12 patients (10.90%) had discharge from wound and 5
patients (4.54%) had wound gape due to infection.