Abstract

BURGOS PORTILLO, Iván; MAINERO RATCHELOU, Fernando E.; BURGOS PORTILLO, Roxana  and  JAIMES CADENA, Marlon. PATOLOGÍA DE LA MAMA DURANTE EL EMBARAZO Y LACTANCIA. Rev. Méd. La Paz [online]. 2012, vol.18, n.1, pp.57-66. ISSN 1726-8958.

One of every seven women pregnant or in lactation period will present a breast pathological event. Breast evaluation should be part of the routine obstetric evaluation. Experience at the Gineco-obstetric Hospital # 4, IMSS, reveals that a total of 77,740 patients where evaluated between January of 1990 and December of 2000, 716 cases where lactation mastitis and 32 cases of breast cancer associated to pregnancy. The management should include a careful evaluation with image studies, biopsies and tissue cultures when necessary. We present the clinical and paraclinical characteristics ofbenign tumoral and non-tumoral disease ofthe breast during pregnancy and lactation, and we present the guidelines for treatment of breast cancer, according to stage and pregnancy trimester.

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