Calcinates in the mammary gland: classification and symptoms

Radiologic examination sometimes reveals calcinants in the mammary gland. This symptom occurs in different conditions, as well as in the development of malignant tumors. Calcinates can be easily seen with mammography. After studying their shape, size, number and location of localization, additional breast examinations are prescribed, right up to the biopsy. Large calcification in the mammary gland rarely predict cancer, but the accumulation of small cells is associated with non-tumor processes and the initial stage of cancer.

Taking into account the number and location of calcification, the calcinates are divided into several types:

1. Lobular: sclerosing adenosis, fibrocystic mastopathy, adenosis cyst. With these changes on the roentgenogram, calcints look in the form of a "cup", in the lateral projection - as a crescent moon. This is a benign process.

2. Protoss: 1) dense fragments in the form of a dotted line or vermicular lines. If the contours are not clear, then differentiation is carried out from the intraserval non-invasive cancer; 2) small pointlike types of "snake skin". Heterogeneous are characteristic for intra-cellular non-invasive breast cancer. 3. Stromal calcifications in the mammary gland are localized in the skin, fat cysts, in the wall of the blood arteries, fibroadenomas. They are large, lumpy, shapeless, like "popcorn", easily diagnosed. Small calcification with fibroaden, such as "broken stone," requires additional diagnosis - a biopsy.

Calcinates in the mammary gland are divided into groups (volume less than 20 mm), linear (form the line), segmental (localized within the proportion of the lobe), regional (localized within one fraction), diffuse (random distribution throughout the gland tissue).

Pregnancy is the most responsible and the most important period in the life of every woman. A timely examination of the functions of the placenta and fetus makes it possible to exclude various pathologies. Calcinates in the placenta - a sign of early maturation or aging of the body. In the third trimester, with a planned ultrasound examination, the doctor can diagnose calcifications, spasms of small vessels in some areas of the placenta, then these areas of tissue are necrotic. When they are healing, calcium salts are deposited in the tissues. Such calcifications are represented by multiple small and large inclusions in the parenchyma, with the organ acquiring a lobule structure. The presence of calcification in the placenta is not a pathological process, it is impossible to exclude them from the body.

Against the backdrop of a sedentary lifestyle in the prostate in the usual inflammatory processes, calcium salts are deposited. Violation of blood circulation in the small pelvis, a deficiency of blood in this organ contribute to the deposition of oxalates, which turn into calcifications in the prostate gland. Stones come in a variety of sizes and quantities. In this case, various pathological processes develop: calcification clogs the urethra, complicates the process of urination, exhausting the man day and night. Sometimes it causes a nervous breakdown - and all ends with a hospital bed.