Benign breast calcification

Women's physical health is related to two aspects, one is gynecology and the other is breast. Women's breasts often develop symptoms of disease because of changes that may occur before or after childbirth. There are some breast diseases that need to be taken seriously and need to be prevented and avoided in a timely manner. What is benign breast calcification?

Currently, commonly used breast imaging examinations include mammography and ultrasound. Mammography, commonly known as mammography, can detect early breast cancer, including breast cancer that is negative on palpation (no lump can be felt). Mammography is currently the most sensitive technique for detecting breast calcifications. Breast calcification appears as a high-density shadow on a breast X-ray, appearing as small white dot-like changes.

Breast calcifications can be divided into coarse calcification and microcalcification according to size, into dot-shaped, amorphous, polymorphic, short rod-shaped and branched according to morphology, and into scattered, diffuse, segmental and clustered according to distribution. Among them, coarse calcification (including hollow calcification) usually occurs in benign lesions; scattered calcifications, whether coarse calcification or microcalcification, are all benign calcifications; diffusely distributed microcalcifications, if not locally clustered, are usually also benign lesions. Segmental and clustered short-rod-shaped and branched microcalcifications should be considered malignant, with a malignancy risk of over 90%, and are mostly ductal carcinoma in situ or invasive ductal carcinoma.

Once breast calcification is detected during physical examination, you need to be clear about the following points:

1. Most breast calcifications are benign.

Second, analysis of its properties requires the combination of information such as size, morphology, distribution, and clinical history.

3. Malignant calcification needs to be treated actively, while benign calcification and possible benign calcification can be followed up and reviewed.

In short, calcification lesions with different characteristics and properties on breast X-ray need to be treated differently. After receiving the diagnosis report, you should analyze it carefully with your doctor, take it seriously, and deal with it according to the specific situation without being overly nervous.