Breast disease
| Breast disease | |
| MeSH | D001941 |
|---|---|
Breast diseases can be classified either with disorders of the integuement, or disorders of the reproductive system.
Cancer
A majority of breast diseases are noncancerous.[1]
Breast Pain
Infections and inflammations
These may be caused among others by trauma, secretory stasis/milk engorgement, hormonal stimulation, infections or autoimmune reactions. Repeated occurrence unrelated to lactation requires endocrinological examination.
Pre-malignant diseases
- Carcinoma in situ, a pre-malignant condition which can progress to a malignant cancer
Malignant diseases
Malignant diseases include:
- Breast cancer
- Paget’s disease of the nipple, also known as Paget’s disease of the breast
Benign conditions
Benign conditions include:
- Congenital disorders
- inverted nipple
- supernumerary nipples/supernumerary breasts (polymazia / polymastia) /duplicated nipples
- Aberrations of normal development and involution
- cyclical nodularity
- breast cysts
- fibroadenoma - benign tumor
- gynecomastia (males)
- nipple discharge, galactorrhea
- mammary fistula
- Fibrocystic disease / Fibrocystic changes
- Pregnancy-related
Fibrocystic Breast Condition
Also called: fibrocystic breast disease, Chronic cystic mastitis, Diffuse cystic mastopathy, Mammary dysplasia
Discharge from the nipples
Abnormal nipples
Inverted nipples
Mastitis
- bacterial mastitis
- mastitis from milk engorgement or secretory stasis
- mastitis of mumps
- chronic intramammary abscess
- chronic subareolar abscess
- tuberculosis of the breast
- syphilis of the breast
- retromammary abscess
- actinomycosis of the breast
- Mondor’s disease
- duct ectasia syndrome
- breast engorgement
References
See also
Template:Diseases of the pelvis, genitals and breasts
Template:Congenital malformations and deformations of integument