Diffuse mastopathy of mammary glands - what is it?

In most cases, women, after hearing from doctors the diagnosis of "diffuse breast mastitis", have no idea what it is. This term in medicine is usually called a disorder, in which there is a change in the structure of the glandular tissue of the breast, which leads to a change in the ratio between the epithelial and glandular components of the tissue. All this, in turn, results in the appearance of tenderness in the chest in the second half of the cycle, densification and swelling of the glands, secretions from the nipples resembling colostrum.

What forms of mastopathy are usually given?

As a rule, in most cases, any diffuse changes in the mammary gland are considered mammalgia as the initial stage of mastopathy. This disorder is characterized by proliferation of connective tissue, which take the form of unformed nodules and strands. As a result, such processes can lead to the formation of cysts, a violation of the structure of the ducts of the gland.

Depending on the results of the study, on the basis of X-ray and morphological changes, the following forms of diffuse mastopathy are distinguished:

1. Adenosis is a violation in which pathological formation is dominated by glandular components;
2. Fibroadenomatosis - fibrosis components predominate;
3. Diffuse cystic mastopathy - this disorder indicates that the disease is progressing and densities, nodules are converted into cysts.
4. Mixed form.

When diagnosing and determining one or another variant of the disorder, the doctors proceed from the percentage ratio in the mammary gland of glandular, connective tissue and fat cells on the mammogram.

In some cases, women may have bilateral, diffuse fibrocystic mastopathy - this diagnosis means that the breast contains both densities and cysts, both in the glands.

What are the causes of such violations?

Having dealt with the fact that this is a diffuse fibrous mastopathy, let's talk about why this disorder can develop.

In most cases, when determining the provoking factor, doctors talk about the polytheology of this disease, i.e. multifactority.

Among the most common causes of mastopathy doctors call:

• heredity;
• impact on the body of harmful environmental factors;
• violation of neurohumoral regulation;
• hyperestrogenia;
• progesterone insufficiency.