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BASICS
Description
- Breast masses are delineated into four categories: acute abscesses,
benign physiologic masses, benign tumors, and cancer.
- Benign masses include cysts, galactoceles, papillomas, fibroadenomas,
phyllodes tumor, and fibrocystic nodules.
- Cancerous masses are painless dominant masses that persist.
Risk Factors
- Breast abscess
- Galactoceles
- Fibroadenoma, papilloma, phylodes tumor, and fibrocystic nodules
- Cancer
- See Breast Cancer chapter
Pathophysiology
- Breast Abscess
- Peripartum
- Milk stasis
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Nonperipartum
- Squamous metaplasia and chronic fibrosis
- Galactocele
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