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William L. Donegan, MD
Milwaukee, Wis

Arch Surg. 1998;133:214.

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In this issue of the ARCHIVES, Tavaf-Motamen and associates give a wake-up call to physicians who study or treat mastodynia. They compared the recall questionnaires of 30 women with breast pain with each patient's daily visual analog scale for breast pain and found poor agreement. Only 73% of those identified as having cyclic mastalgia based on the questionnaire met the same criteria based on their daily diaries. Furthermore, the intensity of other somatic menstrual complaints was not always in accord with the severity of breast pain on the analog scales. Their data emphasize the complexity of this problem and the necessity for objective means of evaluating its course and treatment. In the United States, breast pain is almost the norm. In my surgical practice, only 2.5% of patients referred for breast-related problems are seen primarily for breast pain, but on questioning, the majority report some degree . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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