What is a lipoma?
It is a benign neoplasm that develops, unlike many others, on the basis of adipose tissue cells. That's why you can often hear another name for the violation, - zhirovik.
When examined by histological examination, it is defined as fully matured fat cells. By its structure has a sufficiently localized boundaries. In the center is a capsule made of connective tissue with internal contents. When performing palpation of this site is defined as a small knot, the consistency of which is similar to a rather tight test.
In itself, education has little mobility, is painless, has no predisposition to growth and further spread through the tissues of the breast.
In most cases, such a violation gives a woman only inconvenience as a cosmetic defect.
What are the symptoms of having a breast lipoma?
The presence of this education is determined by the naked eye. Most often it protrudes over the surface of the skin of the tubercles, with fairly dense contents, practically immobile. The so-called fluctuation, - the appearance of sound when pressed, is absent.
Lipoma itself is painless. Discomfort can be noted only when wearing underwear, performing a certain number of body movements.
Symptoms of a neoplasm may vary depending on the form. Most often, women face capsular, which is localized and accounts for about 80% of all species. The main symptom is the presence of a small, dense tubercle.
Diffuse form is much less common. With this, the lipoma spreads to surrounding tissues, simultaneously with the displacement of healthy ones. Fibrolipoma - characterized by a prolonged course, the transformation of internal contents into fibrin fibers. This form is accompanied by the appearance of pain in the chest, swelling of the breast.
To remove or not a lipoma in a mammary gland?
The answer to this kind of question is sought by all women who are confronted with the disease.
As mentioned above, this is a completely benign education, because there is no such threat to the life and health of a woman.
However, each time answering the question of patients concerning whether to remove breast lipoma, whether it can be cancer in the future, doctors pay attention to the fact that there is a certain kind of risk of the disease becoming a malignant form. Given this fact in the diagnosis and before surgery, a woman should insist on a biopsy of breast tissue.
The primary diagnosis of the disease consists in carrying out an X-ray study, mammography in various projections. Also, to determine the exact location of the formation, ultrasound can be prescribed.
As for the treatment of the disease, it is exclusively surgical. In this case, the woman herself makes a decision regarding its conduct. Most of the women make a choice in favor of monitoring, passing periodic surveys, monitoring, rather than operations.