L E Hughes

No ORCID on file · 6 papers in corpus · active 1979-1992

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  • article 6
article 1992
Drug Treatments for Mastalgia: 17 Years Experience in the Cardiff Mastalgia Clinic
·doi:10.1177/014107689208500105

Mastalgia commonly presents to medical practitioners. The majority of patients can be managed by exclusion of cancer and reassurance. In some the severity of pain affects the quality of life and drug treatment should be considered. Since it…

article 1990
Mastalgia refractory to drug treatment
·doi:10.1002/bjs.1800771011

Management of the patient with mastalgia who fails to respond to first line therapy is a difficult problem and there is a group of patients who do not respond to any therapy. A group of 126 patients with mastalgia who failed to respond to f…

article 1989
Non-cyclical mastalgia: An improved classification and treatment
·doi:10.1002/bjs.1800760909

A prospective study of 72 patients with non-cyclical breast pain was carried out. Non-cyclical breast pain was subdivided into true non-cyclical mastalgia (35 patients) and musculoskeletal pain (37 patients), the latter including Tietze's s…

article 1985
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE OF DRUG TREATMENTS FOR MASTALGIA
·doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(85)92506-1
article 1982
CONTROLLED TRIAL OF THE ANTIGONADOTROPIN DANAZOL IN PAINFUL NODULAR BENIGN BREAST DISEASE
·doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(82)91932-8
article 1979
The use of danazol in the treatment of painful benign breast disease: preliminary results.

The preliminary results of a double-blind randomized cross-over trial of danazol versus placebo in patients with severe cyclical breast pain are reported. Though numbers are small at present, the results are encouraging.