Author(s)

Ndeye Bigue Mar^1*, Assane Ndiaye², Aïnina Ndiaye¹, Karim Yacouba Garba¹, Magaye Gaye¹, Sokhna Astou Gawane Thiam¹, Issa Dior Seck¹, Racky Wade¹, Jean Marc Ndiaga Ndoye¹, Mamadou Diop¹, Abdoulaye Ndiaye¹

¹Laboratory of Anatomy and Organogenesis, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Sénégal.
²Training and Research Unit in Health Sciences, Assane Seck University of Ziguinchor, Ziguinchor, Sénégal.

Nowadays, women are more and more resorting to breast surgery for the purposes of isolated esthetics or within the framework of a mammectomy for tumor with its cohort of psychological problems post mutilation often requiring reconstruction. In context of breast cancer increase in Senegal, we have carried out breast morphology in female subjects of the Sahelian type in order to contribute to the development of a morphological database for reconstruction, reduction or breast augmentation. It was a prospective study on 118 female subjects received at Cancer Institute for screening. They were divided into two groups (age ≤ 40 years and age > 40 years). Subjects’ morphometric variables were collected in anatomical position and correlated with age, parity, obesity and genital activity using. Fifty six subjects (47.5%) were over 40 years of age. There were 40 multiparous (33.9%). Fifteen subjects (12.7%) and six subjects (5%) were obese and morbidly obese, respectively. Subjects in genital activity were 34 (29%). The overall average size of the areola was 4.3 ± 1.5 cm. The nipple was low located with an average of 7.2 ± 3.5 cm. The diameters mentioned above increased significantly with age and body mass index, for p-values < 0.05, with the exception of the vertical diameter. Breast diameters were greater in postmenopausal women. Morphometry of Sahelian-type women’s breast is strongly influenced by socio-demographic data, hence the need to take it into account during reconstruction, reduction or breast augmentation surgeries in Senegal.

Breasts, Morphometry, Surgery, Sahelian Woman

Mar, N. , Ndiaye, A. , Ndiaye, A. , Garba, K. , Gaye, M. , Thiam, S. , Seck, I. , Wade, R. , Ndoye, J. , Diop, M. and Ndiaye, A. (2020) Breast Morphometry in Senegalese Women: Study on a Sample of 118 Subjects. Advances in Breast Cancer Research, 9, 13-20. doi: 10.4236/abcr.2020.92002.