title: Benign disease of the breast in Ile-Ife: a 10 year experience and literature review.
abstract: This study is a 10 year review of the benign diseases of the breast in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. A total of 362 cases were found. Three hundred and forty (95%) of the diseases occurred in females while 18 (5%) occurred in males giving a female-male ratio of 19:1. Fibroadenoma was the commonest lesion followed by fibrocystic disease. They accounted for 59.1% and 16.5% of benign breast diseases respectively. Acute and acute-on-chronic mastitis constituted 7.2%. These three lesions made up over 82% of the cases. Gynaecomastia was the commonest benign male breast disease and accounted for 3.8% of all the cases of benign breast disease. Apart from the atypical hyperplasia form of fibrocystic disease, benign diseases of the breast are not major predisposing lesions to malignant breast diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Morbid Anatomy and Forensic Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Adeniji
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Adelusola
authors.forename: W O
authors.initials: WO
authors.lastname: Odesanmi
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009549:Nigeria; D017678:Sex Distribution; D014504:Urban Health