What does a Category 3 hypoechoic nodule on the right breast mean?

Category 3 right breast hypoechoic nodules refer to the appearance of nodules in the breast area. Breast nodules can easily cause breast pain or swelling, and can also easily affect normal physical health. When right breast hypoechoic nodules appear, timely treatment is required, and some medications can be taken for treatment.

What does a Category 3 hypoechoic nodule on the right breast mean?

Symptoms

The symptoms of breast hyperplasia are mainly characterized by cyclical breast pain. Initially, it is a diffuse distension and pain, and the tenderness is more obvious on the upper outer side and upper middle part of the breast. The pain worsens before menstruation every month and decreases or disappears after menstruation. In severe cases, there is persistent pain before and after menstruation. Sometimes the pain radiates to the armpits, shoulders, back, upper limbs, etc. About 80% of patients have symptoms of breast pain, which is usually bilateral or unilateral. The pain is classified into distending pain, stabbing pain, piercing pain, dull pain or tenderness. The manifestation of breast pain is often unstable and may worsen before menstruation, and often worsen when the mood changes, fatigue, or weather changes. Breast lumps are the main basis for diagnosing breast diseases. Most of them are multiple, with different sizes, hard or tough texture, and the lumps are not adhered to the skin. The surface of the lumps is often not smooth and has a granular feel. In addition to the above symptoms, some patients have systemic symptoms such as itchy nipples, discharge, bitter mouth, rib distension, chest tightness, anorexia, and menstrual disorders.

Patients often report that they have a lump in their breast, but clinical examination only reveals thickened mammary glands. In very rare cases of simple lobular breast hyperplasia in adolescence, spontaneous healing can occur in about 2 years, but most patients require treatment.

Breast pain and lumps are the main clinical manifestations of this disease.

(1) Breast pain: It is often characterized by distending pain or stabbing pain, which may affect one or both breasts, with one breast being more severe. Patients with severe pain cannot touch the breast, and the pain may even affect their daily life and work. The pain is mainly in the breast lump, and may also radiate to the affected armpit, chest, flank, shoulder and back; some people experience nipple pain or itching. Breast pain often occurs or worsens a few days before menstruation, and the pain is significantly reduced or disappears after menstruation; the pain may also fluctuate with mood changes. This pain related to the menstrual cycle and emotional changes is the main feature of the clinical manifestations of hyperplasia of the breast.

(2) Breast lumps: Breast lumps can occur in one or both breasts, in one or more lumps, and are more common in the upper outer quadrant of the breast, but can also occur in other quadrants. The shapes of the lumps include flake-shaped, nodular-shaped, cord-shaped, granular-shaped, etc., among which the flake-shaped is the most common. The lump has unclear boundaries, is of medium or slightly hard texture, has good mobility, has no adhesion to surrounding tissues, and is often tender. The lumps vary in size, with small ones being as big as millet grains and large ones exceeding 3 to 4 cm. Breast lumps also change with the menstrual cycle. The lumps become larger and harder before menstruation, and shrink and soften after menstruation.

(3) Nipple discharge: A small number of patients may experience nipple discharge, which is spontaneous and straw-yellow or brown serous.

(4) Menstrual disorders: Patients with this disease may experience irregular menstruation, scanty or light-colored menstruation, and may be accompanied by dysmenorrhea.

(5) Emotional changes: Patients often feel depressed or irritable, which worsens when they are angry, stressed or tired.