Insufficiency of mammary glands

Introduction The growth of breast tissue with age, the reduction of endocrine in the body, the decline of various tissues, the beginning of the mammary gland tissue began to degenerate, slowly accompanying into the menopause, is the human body gradually into the old age.

Cause

Reduced hormone secretion in the body, weakened estrogen function or abnormal sex hormones.

an examination

Related inspection

Breast ultrasound examination breast palpation

Molybdenum target examination, mammography.

Some elderly people have weakened function of inactivated estrogen by the liver or abnormal secretion of sex hormones, resulting in incomplete degeneration of the breast, prone to various cystic lesions, fat accumulation, etc., while breast cancer occurs in breast fat or fibrous tissue significantly increased in the mammary gland. The tissue has been significantly degraded and atrophied in the site.

Differential diagnosis

Differential diagnosis of mammary gland insufficiency:

1, multiple breast disease: a small number of women have excess breasts without abnormalities of degeneration or degeneration, also known as multiple breast disease, vagus breast, extra breasts. Can occur on one or both sides. Common parts in the armpit, can also be found in the chest wall, abdomen, groin, outside the thigh, occasionally on the cheeks, ears, neck, upper limbs, shoulders, buttocks, vulva, etc.

2. Degenerative breast: During lactation, the milk produced by the mammary gland is hypertrophic hypertrophy of the breast gland at 2-3 days after delivery. The acinar epithelium is arranged in a single line, which is filled with milk, and the fibrous tissue around the milk duct is almost Disappeared, replaced by capillaries, atypical expansion of the acinar and milk ducts, internal storage of milk and cell shedding. In the later stages of lactation, breast changes vary with weaning. If the breast is not breast-feeding after delivery, the pressure in the milk duct is getting higher, the milk duct is dilated, the wall of the breast is compressed, and the leaflet of the breast is pressed. After a few days, the above-mentioned mammary gland structure rapidly undergoes degenerative changes. This change is rapid and extensive, so that after the breast is restored, its volume is smaller than the pregnancy. The former level. This is the degenerating mammary gland.

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