Analysis of mastalgia cases presented at Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal

Breast pain (Mastalgia) is a common cause of anxiety among women and frequently leads to a primary care clinic for consultation. This study has been designed to study about mastalgia cases presented at Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara. A total of 221 female patients with breast pain presented at outpatient department of surgery from Jan 2000 to Dec 2001 were enrolled in this study. Overall 36.8% presented with cyclical mastalgia and 43.1% with noncyclical mastalgia. Nonhormonal therapy like reassurance, breast support, reduction in dietary fat intake, VitE, Vit B6 was preferred for initial therapy of mastalgia as it was found to be associated with improvements of cyclical mastalgia and good compliance. Non cyclical mastalgia mostly presented with breast lump and ended with excision of lump.