What Are the Causes of Breast Pain?

The sensation of the breast is dominated by the intercostal nerves and the 3 and 4 cervical nerves. Once these nerves are violated, it will cause pain, so breast pain is not a specific symptom of a disease. Early breast cancer is rarely painful unless it is locally advanced or inflammatory. Breast pain mostly comes from non-tumorous benign breast diseases. It can be said that breast pain is not directly proportional to the benign and malignant breast disease and the severity of the disease. What needs to be warned is: breast lumps without breast pain should be more vigilant.

Basic Information

English name

breast pain

Visiting department

surgical

Multiple groups

female

Common locations

Mammary gland

Common causes

Intercostal and 3,4 cervical nerves are damaged

Common symptoms

Persistent pain, tenderness, tenderness, dull or dull pain, radiation pain, etc.

Causes of breast pain

The sensation of the breast is innervated by the intercostal nerves and the 3 and 4 cervical nerves. Once these nerves are violated, it can cause pain.

Clinical manifestations of breast pain

There are many diseases that cause breast pain. Acute mastitis is common, persistent pain, and tenderness is obvious. Pain may appear after the abscess is formed. Hyperplasia of the breast, breast pain on both sides is mostly, one side is heavy, and it often shows periodicity. The breast swells before menstrual cramps, and the pain relieves and disappears after menstruation. In some patients, the pain can also radiate to the armpit or shoulder and back. Plasma cell mastitis (also known as mammary duct dilatation syndrome) is often accompanied by local itching and burning pain. The nipple is cracked, and the nipple is painful during breastfeeding. A small number of breast cancers may show mild dull pain or dull pain, and the attacks are often irregular; locally advanced breast cancer tumors rupture and necrosis to form ulcers, and persistent burning pain may appear; inflammatory breast cancer breast skin appears red, swollen, and hot Pain, accompanied by tenderness.

Breast pain examination

When identifying breast pain, the outpatient doctor will ask the medical history to understand if there is an inducement, the onset and duration, the characteristics of the pain, whether it has been treated and how effective it is, and then check the body. In the differential diagnosis, sometimes combined with imaging examination, including mammography (mammography of mammography), color Doppler ultrasound, breast magnetic resonance (MRI). If the breast is painful and accompanied by nipple discharge, some examination methods for nipple discharge can also be developed, such as bronchoscopy, mammography, and nipple discharge cytology.

Breast pain treatment

Appropriate treatment was given after diagnosis.