Re: Mastodynia
From: Barbara (mainegal@megalink.net)
Mon Apr 28 21:00:31 1997
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At 11:43 PM 4/27/97 -0500, you wrote:
>There is some good literature on treating this king of breast pain with
either evening primrose oil (British lit 1000mg tid) or iodine (I'll have to
look up the reference again for the dose)
>
>Timothy Canavan, MD
>Lancaster PA
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>From: Robert J. Woolley[SMTP:wooll005@gold.tc.umn.edu]
>Sent: Sunday,April 27,1997 11:03 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: Re: Mastodynia
>
>In message <19970427.224356.6743.0.AMendel@juno.com> writes:
>> Any ideas re persistent breast pain. A 32 y.o G2 P2 presents with a 3
>> year history of left breast pain. pain is sharp, knife-like, waxes and
>> wanes but never resolves completely. It started after her last delivery.
>> She's been seen by a breast surgeon and had a negative mammogram and
>> ultrasound in the past. She has become "decaffeinated" and is still in
>> pain. No CA in family history. No masses in the tender area.
>> So....ideas?
>
>Check your medical library for a copy of a wonderful old textbook which I
think
>has slipped out of print, *MacBryde's Signs and Symptoms*. (My copy is, I
think,
>a 3rd edition, ca. 1983.) It has an entire chapter on the differential
diagnosis
>of breast pain. Of course, I don't remember a bit of it, but at least I know
>where to look it up!
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>Bob Woolley
>St. Paul, Minnesota
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>"The strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of
> many bad measures."
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> Daniel Webster
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