Periductal mastitis and duct ectasia: Different conditions with different aetiologies
✍ Scribed by Mr J. M. Dixon; O. Ravisekar; U. Chetty; T. J. Anderson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 265 KB
- Volume
- 83
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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✦ Synopsis
EH3 9rU: UK A prospective study of 14225 patients has been undertaken to determine the inter-relationship between periductal rnastitis and duct ectasia and to establish whether there is an association between smoking and either of these two conditions. Periductal mastitis affected women at a younger age than did duct ectasia. Of 139 patients with the clinical syndrome of periductal mastitis, 97 (70 per cent) had a past history of previous periductal mastitis, compared with only one (1 per cent) of 186 patients with the clinical syndrome of duct ectasia ( P < 0.0001). There was a significant excess of smokers in ~