Characterization of patients with non-palpable breast lesions
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Artime Martínez , Liz María
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Moreno Cubela, Fidel Jesús
[1]
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Romero Ramos, Miguel
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Gutiérrez Gacel , Liudmila
[3]
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Vegas Torres , Nabia Isabel
[3]
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[1] Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de la Habana
Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de la Habana
Cuba
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[2] Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico Celia Sánchez Manduley. Granma, Cuba
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[3] Facultad de Ciencias Médicas Celia Sánchez Manduley. Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Granma
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- Localización: AG Salud, ISSN-e 3006-6859, Vol. 1, Nº. 0, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: AG Salud)
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
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
