Comparison of Presentation Types and Clinical Findings of Rural and Urban Patients with Mastalgia: A Retrospective Analysis
of 730 Patients from Turkey

14 March 2024: Clinical Research

Gultekin Ozan Kucuk ^ABCDEF*

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.943448

Med Sci Monit 2024; 30:e943448

Table 3 Radiologic findings and comorbid medical conditions of patients presenting with mastalgia.

	Total (n=730)	Rural (n=232)	Urban (n n =498)	p value

Non-specific (fibrocystic change/normal)	465 (63.7%)	155 (66.8%)	310 (62.2%)	0.233^a
Simple or complex cyst	134 (18.4%)	31 (13.4%)	103 (20.7%)	0.017^a
Fibroadenoma	44 (6.0%)	11 (4.7%)	33 (6.6%)	0.407^a
Ductal ectasia	31 (4.2%)	12 (5.2%)	19 (3.8%)	0.516^a
Mastitis or inflammation	25 (3.4%)	14 (6.0%)	11 (2.2%)	0.015^a
Complicated cyst	14 (1.9%)	3 (1.3%)	11 (2.2%)	0.301^c
Malignancy	11 (1.5%)	4 (1.7%)	7 (1.4%)	0.483^c
Subcutaneous benign lesion	3 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	3 (0.6%)	0.317^c
Lipoma/fat necrosis	3 (0.4%)	2 (0.9%)	1 (0.2%)	0.238^c

Psychiatric disease	104 (14.2%)	29 (12.5%)	75 (15.1%)	0.357^a
Thyroid disease	70 (9.6%)	21 (9.1%)	49 (9.8%)	0.840^b
Hypertension	69 (9.5%)	25 (10.8%)	44 (8.8%)	0.485^b
Neurologic disease	48 (6.6%)	11 (4.7%)	37 (7.4%)	0.229^b
Lumbar hernia	44 (6.0%)	16 (6.9%)	28 (5.6%)	0.613^b
Gastrointestinal disease	42 (5.8%)	21 (9.1%)	21 (4.2%)	0.015^b
Cervical disease or shoulder pathology	38 (5.2%)	9 (3.9%)	29 (5.8%)	0.357^b
Diabetes mellitus	38 (5.2%)	11 (4.7%)	27 (5.4%)	0.837^b
Uro-gynecologic disease	33 (4.5%)	11 (4.7%)	22 (4.4%)	0.996^b
Pulmonary disease	29 (4.0%)	9 (3.9%)	20 (4.0%)	0.998^b
Rheumatologic disease	25 (3.4%)	6 (2.6%)	19 (3.8%)	0.528^b
Cardiac disease	17 (2.3%)	6 (2.6%)	11 (2.2%)	0.467^c
Self-history of breast cancer	8 (1.1%)	3 (1.3%)	5 (1.0%)	0.494^c
^a Pearson’s chi-square test; ^b Yates continuity correction; ^c Fisher’s exact test. ^*