IS CHRONIC CYSTIC MASTITIS A PRECANCEROUS LESION?
- 1 March 1948
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Surgery
- Vol. 56 (3) , 338-344
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1948.01240010345004
Abstract
CHRONIC cystic mastitis has been known as a clinical and pathologic entity for more than one hundred years (Sir Ashley Cooper, 1831). However, the surgeon consulting the literature is confronted with a multitude of conflicting opinions on the nature of this disease and with contradictory advice as to the proper treatment. The opinion of Klose and Sebening,1Semb,2Ewing,3Crile and Graham4and Cheatle and Cutler5that chronic cystic mastitis is a precancerous lesion and that mastectomy is indicated is opposed by authorities like Bloodgood,6Campbell,7Lewis and Geschickter,8Bell and others, who have stated the belief that patients with chronic cystic mastitis are no more liable to the development of cancer of the breast than are those without it. There are still others who contend that while chronic cystic mastitis may predispose to cancer of the breast the incidence of theKeywords
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