amastia / amazia : congenital absence of the mammae; sometimes applied to masculine breast characteristics in an adult female mamma areolata : a condition of the breast in which there is bulging of the areola of the nipple amazon thorax : a chest with only one mammary gland, or breast polymastia / pleomastia : the presence of more than one pair of mammae, or breasts accessory mammary gland / mamma accessoria : a mammary gland present in excess of the normal number, generally found along the line of the embryonic mammary ridge (crest) hypomastia / micromastia : abnormal smallness of the mamma. Therapy : augmentation mammaplasty macromastia / gigantomastia / breast hypertrophy : oversize of the breasts or mammae. Aetiology : thyroid, adrenal, hypophyseal or ovarian disorders at puberty (malignant when associated to precocious puberty) Therapy : reduction mammaplasty breast atrophy mastoptosis : pendulous breasts Aetiology : primary : ovarian agenesis secondary : LH and FSH deficiency Therapy : mastopexy anisomastia : inequality in the size of the breasts. mastorrhagia : hemorrhage from the mammary gland. Symptoms & signs : examination with radial squeezing to identify the area from which hemorrhage comes mastomenia : vicarious menstruation from the breast mastoscirrhus : hardening, or scirrhus, of the mammary gland. cyclomastopathy : an affection of the mammae, presenting excessive connective tissue overgrowth or epithelial proliferation or both in response to growth stimuli or as a manifestation of abnormal involution following normal response.

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blauer Punkt nicht proliferative Läsionen Zysten
blauer Punkt papilläre apokrine Veränderungen
blauer Punkt

 epitheliale Kalzifikationen
blauer Punkt

 milde Hyperplasien
blauer Punkt proliferative Läsionen ohne Atypie moderate duktale Hyperplasien
blauer Punkt intraduktale Papillome
blauer Punkt

 sklerosierende Adenose
blauer Punkt

 Fibroadenome
blauer Punkt atypische Hyperplasien atypische duktale Hyperplasien
blauer Punkt atypische lobuläre Hyperplasien
blauer Punkt 1.) Dupont WD, Page DL:
Risk factors for breast cancer in women with proliferative breast disease.
NEJM 312(1985):146-151

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