Characterization of patients with non-palpable breast lesions

Liz María Artime Martínez, Fidel Jesús Moreno Cubela, Miguel Romero Ramos, Liudmila Gutiérrez Gacel and Nabia Isabel Vegas Torres

Salud Integral y Comunitaria, 2023, vol. 1, 1-1

Abstract: Introduction: nonpalpable breast lesions constitute a difficult health problem for both the patients and the attending physicians. Objective: to characterize patients with non-palpable breast lesions. Methods: a descriptive and cross-sectional observational study was carried out. The study universe consisted of 43 patients with non-palpable breast lesions. The variables evaluated were age, menarche, menopause, hormonal status, gestational history, conception of the first child, lactation, family pathological history, body mass index, lesion location. Results: the most frequent clinical and epidemiological characteristics were age 40-49 (39,5 %); normal menarche and menopause with (48,8 % and 51,2 %) respectively; within the hormonal status, postmenopausal women resulted in 65,1 %; as well as parity of the first child after 35 years and nulliparity for 83,7 % and 62,8 % respectively and the location of the most frequent lesion was in the upper outer quadrant for 32,6 %. Microcalcifications were the most frequent lesions. Conclusions: family history of breast cancer, age, menarche, menopause, gestational history and location of lesions were found. Microcalcifications were common, with a predominance of BIRADS IV lesions. Although predominantly benign, a notable group were malignant, requiring surgical treatment, with only one treated conservatively.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.62486/sic20231

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