The diagnosis can be clinically challenging due to. This can cause the duct to become blocked and lead to fluid buildup. Our study supports the idea that this disease begins with a silent ductal infection with periductal infiltration, and ends with chronic inflammation and fibrosis with consequent duct ectasia. Its more common in women who are getting close to menopause. While it sometimes causes pain, irritation, and discharge, its generally not a cause for.
Duct ectasia, also known as mammary duct ectasia, is a benign noncancerous breast condition that occurs when a milk duct in the breast widens and its walls thicken. Mammary duct ectasia in childhood is a rare disease. Mammary duct ectasia symptoms and causes mayo clinic. Duct ectasia of the breast is a noncancerous condition that results in clogged ducts around your nipple. Ductal ectasia is a benign breast disease, histologically characterized by swollen ducts associated with periductal fibrosis and inflammation. It appears typically as a periareolar mammary mass andor nipple discharge. Therefore, periductal mastitis, nonpuerperal mastitis and duct ectasia arc stages of the same pathological process. The most common cause in children is mammary duct ectasia, which is a benign and selflimiting condition. When symptomatic, it is manifested as a nonspontaneous nipple. Ectasia ductal mamaria summary the autors present 81 cases with diagnostic of mamary duct ectasia, al theses vith patology.
They analizaed age, symyoms, and the results of histology. Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report. Even though in the adult age is an acquired disease, its occurrence in children suggests it may constitute a development mammary gland anomaly. Ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast results of conservative and radical treatments in 716 patients, european journal of cancer, vol. The milk duct can then become blocked or clogged with a thick, sticky substance. Noncancerous breast conditions fibrosis and simple cysts in the breast hyperplasia of the breast ductal or lobular lobular carcinoma in. Mammary duct ectasia is the abnormal widening of one or more breast ducts to greater than 2 mm diameter, or 3 mm at the ampulla.
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