Overview of Breast Disorders

Overview of Breast Disorders

What is the brief description of breast disease? Breast disease is a disease originating from breast-related tissues such as mammary ducts, fat, lymph nodes, blood vessels, and nipples. Breast diseases include mastitis, benign breast diseases, breast malignant tumors, congenital growth and development abnormalities, and male breast development.

Causes of breast diseases

1. Mastitis diseases generally include acute mastitis, breast tuberculosis, and breast fat necrosis. Subacute mastitis is often caused by infection of bacteria due to damage to the outer skin or direct invasion of the mammary gland by bacteria, resulting in infection. Most cases of breast tuberculosis are secondary to menstrual dissemination of pulmonary or mesenteric lymph node tuberculosis. Breast fat necrosis is often caused by trauma.

2. Breast cancer This type of disease can be caused by infection (such as plasma cell mastitis), ovarian imbalance (such as cystic hyperplasia of the breast), environment, radiation, and genetic factors. The causes of some diseases are still unknown.

3. Malignant breast tumors The causes of most malignant breast tumors are still unknown and may be related to genetic inheritance, hormonal imbalance and external stimuli.

Clinical symptoms of breast disease

1. Symptoms of mastitis include fever, chills, palpable lumps in the breast (one or more), breast swelling and pain, nipple discharge, etc.

2. Good breast lumps: When the lumps are large, you can touch the lumps with clear boundaries and smooth surface. They are soft in texture and have good mobility. They may be painful or not painful, and they may cause slow growth and development.

3. The most specific manifestation of malignant breast tumor is a painless mass, which may be rotating or multiple, with unclear boundaries, a rough and hard surface, and rapid growth. It may adhere to the surrounding tissues. When the tumor invades the skin, the skin may become wrinkled, consolidated, and even ulcerated and bleeding, and the nipple may have indentations. You can touch the enlarged axillary lymph nodes in the same direction as the diseased breast.

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