Breast cysts
Risks
— Occur
most commonly in the last decade of
reproductive life (peak at forties
and early fifty) as a result of a non-integrated involution of stroma and
epithelium, they develop from lobules and are fluid-filled space—larger cyst.
Features
§ They
are distended, involuted lobules and are most frequently seen in perimenopausal period
§ Clinically,
they are smooth discrete, round palpable lumps that can be painful and fluctuant.
Treatment
Symptomatic palpable cysts are treated by aspiration,
provided the fluid is not blood stained, and if so, it require excision to
exclude an associated intracystic cancer
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