Cysts and milk ducts

    A 44-year-old patient came for an ultrasound of the mammary glands; earlier, according to her, cysts were found in one gland.

    On ultrasound, in the external parts of the left gland, two cysts are visualized(fig.1-3), one of them with hyperechoic point inclusions, on the CFM without blood flow. In the retroareolar region the dilated milk ducts(mammary duct ectasia, fig.4) up to 4 mm, also with echogenic point inclusions, during compression of this region the patient noted discomfort (mastitis? mastopathy?). Milk ducts in another gland up to 3 mm.

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