Intraductal papillomas are most often seen in menstruating women aged 40-50 years 75% of cases occur in the abdomen of the large milk ducts near the nipple and are small with a villi and have many normal thin-walled blood vessels so they bleed easily.
Clinical characteristics of intramammary duct papilloma
Generally months without conscious symptoms poor often because the nipple overflow contaminate underwear and draw attention to the overflow can be bloody dark brown or yellow liquid tumor small often can not be palpable occasionally larger lumps large milk duct papilloma can be in the areola area to find a few millimeters in diameter small nodules are mostly round soft can push light pressure this lump often can be from the nipple overflow bloody liquid Tao Nan City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Department of Surgery Yu Nianfeng
Important treatment of intramammary duct papilloma
Treatment is mainly surgical for single intraductal papilloma, the diseased milk duct system should be excised before surgery, and a blunt-tipped fine needle should be inserted with acupressure to determine the mouth of the milk duct that is overflowing, or a radial incision should be made along the needle or the colored part of US blue to excise the test milk duct and the surrounding breast tissue, and pathological examination should be routinely performed if there is malignancy, and radical mastectomy should be performed for older people with active or progressive milk duct epithelial proliferation. Mastectomy is generally considered benign, but the malignancy rate is 6% to 8%, especially for papillomas originating from small ducts.