What is breast duct dilatation?

Mammary duct ectasia generally refers to mammary duct ectasia, the etiology is not yet fully clear, in general and mammary duct excretion disorders, infection, abnormal hormone stimulation and other related factors.

1, mammary duct excretion disorders

nipple abnormal development, depression and other factors will lead to mammary duct stenosis, occlusion, which secretions accumulated for a long time will form mammary duct ectasia.

2, infection

If the nipple and areola skin is infected, bacteria will enter the skin through the skin barrier, involving mammary duct, epithelial cells and lipid secretions in the tube will cause mammary duct ectasia after aggregation.

3, abnormal hormone stimulation

Normal female hormone levels are stable changes, if serum prolactin levels are abnormally increased, it will cause duct ectasia.