P R Maddox

Surgical biopsy of benign breast lumps produces a significant surgical workload, morbidity and cost. A double-blind placebo-controlled trial of danazol 200 mg daily was carried out with the aim of reducing the size of solid discrete breast …

Management of the patient with mastalgia who fails to respond to first line therapy is a difficult problem and there is a group of patients who do not respond to any therapy. A group of 126 patients with mastalgia who failed to respond to f…

A low-dose danazol maintenance therapy (mean total dose 800 mg per month) was given during the luteal phase to 34 women with severe relapsing cyclical mastalgia. On conventional danazol dosage, all subjects had previously obtained a useful …

The management of mastalgia consists of classification into its various patterns: reassurance, drug therapy for severe cases, and, rarely, surgery. Differentiation into cyclical and noncyclical patterns on a simple pain chart is useful for …

A prospective study of 72 patients with non-cyclical breast pain was carried out. Non-cyclical breast pain was subdivided into true non-cyclical mastalgia (35 patients) and musculoskeletal pain (37 patients), the latter including Tietze's s…