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Objective: In the medical encyclopedia ;Mastodynia, mastalgia or mammalgia are names for a medical symptom that means -pain in the breast .This common problem seen in the west, finds little mention in our country and our literature. The purpose of this study is to report the pattern of various breast diseases amongst women presenting with mastalgia (breast pain) in Mosul breast clinic emphasizing their assessment and hoping to initiate further studies on their natural profile. Patients and methods:A retrospective study of 682 female patients with mastalgia. From the Breast Clinic in Al Jamhoory Teaching Hospital in Mosul between Aug 2002 -March 2004. Records of six hundred eighty two patients with breast pain with or without lumpiness utilizing Cardiff daily breast pain chart filled by the patients were reviewed. Their mean age was about 38 years. All patients were examined clinically and by ultrasound (probe7.5MHz). Mammography and histopathological examination were done to those with equivocal and suspicious clinical and ultrasonographic results. Results: Cyclical breast pain was reported in 422 patients (62%), normal breast nodularity in 154 (22%), inflammatory lesions in 40 (6%), benign breast pathology in 56 (8%), benign tumours in 6(less than 1%) and malignant tumours in 4 (less than 1%). Conclusions: Breast pain is a common problem in the breast clinic. This study showed that cyclical breast pain and nodularity represent the commonest conditions followed by benign and inflammatory lesions. Breast pain needs to be evaluated as with many other medical problems, by good history (including breast pain chart) and examination. This to be followed by imaging (as the age implies) and histopathological assessments. Surgeons evaluating breast pain should have more rational criteria in using further sophisticated, expensive and invasive tests.

Background: Obesity has been considered as a relative contraindication to laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Aim: Evaluating the safety of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in obese patients. Patients and methods: The study was performed in Al-Jomhoory Teaching Hospital, Mosul City. From July 2004 to January 2015. This is a prospective study included 1145 patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy. All patients from Mosul province, were divided according to the body mass index into two groups. Group I included 141 patients (12.3%) who were obese (BMI more than 30), and group II, included 1004 non-obese (87.7%) (BMI less than 30). Peroperative and Postoperative complications, conversion rate, and hospital stay were compared between these two groups. Results: There was no difference between obese and non-obese groups in preoperative complications, except Subcutaneous insufflations which occurred in 5 cases (3.5 %) and bleeding from the portal site in 3 cases (2.1%) in obese patients. Regarding to the pre and post operative complications there were no significant difference between the two groups with p value (p ≤ 0.05). Conclusion: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a safe and effective treatment for obese patients with cholecystitis. There is no difference in preoperative and postoperative technical procedures between obese and non-obese patients.