[Prolactin in pathology of the breast. Clinical study ].

In the last years many Authors on the grounds of clinical and experimental studies have assumed the possibility of a connection between the prolactin and the breast pathology especially the carcionoma. In the present work the Authors give the results of the doses of the prolactin plasmatic basal levels, performed on 122 subjects belonging to 4 different groups: 1) patients with carcinoma of the breast; 2) patients with benign tumors of the breast; 3) patients with fibrocystic breast disease; 4) subjects of control. In patients who have undergone an operation further doses of blood prolactin have been carried out on 5th, 10th, 30th day after operation. On the grounds of such results the Authors propose new hypothesis of work wich will help to clear this problem.