RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Benign breast disease: When to treat, when to reassure, when to refer
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 425
OP 432
VO 69
IS 5
A1 Lakshmi Vaidyanathan
A1 Karen Barnard
A1 D. Michael Elnicki
YR 2002
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/69/5/425.abstract
AB Many women have breast symptoms—swelling and tenderness, nodularity, pain, palpable lumps, nipple discharge, or breast infections and inflammation. Fortunately, relatively few have breast cancer. Physicians must distinguish benign breast conditions from malignant ones, and know when to refer the patient to a specialist. We have included some of the newer diagnostic techniques and the approach to patients with nonpalpable lesions detected on a screening mammogram.