What is plasma cell mastitis?
Plasma cell mastitis, also known as ductal dilation of the breast, is a chronic nonbacterial mammitis that occurs more often in the non-lactation period and is based on duct dilation and plasma cell infiltration.
Common cause of plasmic mastitis
1. Inverted nipple deformity or dysplasia.
2. Breastfeeding retention or difficulty breastfeeding during lactation.
3. Inflammation, trauma and areola area surgery involve the milk duct.
4. Breast degeneration leads to degeneration of milk duct muscle epithelial cells and contraction weakness.
5. Autoimmunity and endocrine dysfunction are related.
6. Bad living habits such as smoking and corset damage the breast duct, and smoking can increase the incidence of PCM 5 times.
7. Deficiency of nutrients and trace elements (such as vitamin A, etc.), or oral contraceptives during childbearing, especially multiple drugs or abortions, resulting in endocrine disorders, and serious abnormalities in estrogen and progesterone levels.
8. History of previous mycobacterial infection.
9. BMI = body weight (kg) / height square (㎡).
10. Long-term emotional abnormalities and sudden fluctuations, such as mood disorders caused by adverse stimuli, intense emotional fluctuations such as anger and fear, or overwork.
The advantages of our hospital's thoracic breast nail surgery treatment
Traditional Chinese medicine has its unique advantages in the treatment of plasma cell mastitis, which is mainly dialectical, combined with internal and external, and treated both symptoms and root causes.
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Internal treatment
In the case of divided causes, types and stages, some patients have red, swollen, hot and painful lump surfaces, and even pus and pus, and there is a powder slag-like substance in the pus.
TCM dialectics
1. Hepatic depression syndrome: breast lumps, nipple discharge, nipple depression, unchanged skin color, vague pain of lumps, dry mouth, chest swelling, irritability, red tongue, thin white moss, pulse strings. Relieve liver depression and loosen knots.
2. Stomach heat blazing evidence: breast lumps, red hot pain, inverted nipples, discharge, cold fever, dry mouth, constipation, red tongue, number of pulse strings. Clear the stomach and release heat, detoxify and loosen knots.
3. Yin deficiency fire evidence: breast lumps, dark red skin, inverted nipples, nipple discharge is bloody, five upset and hot, mouth is not eager to drink, tongue red moss less, fine pulses. Nourish the yin and lower the fire, reduce swelling and scatter knots.
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External treatment
Mainly with the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine collapse external application, incision, pad cotton binding method and the application of minimally invasive rotary resection surgery of the breast, etc., there are good results, and patient satisfaction is higher.
Department Profile
Thoracic and breast nail surgery
The Department of Thoracic and Breast Nail Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Changchun University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has 30 open beds, and the team of doctors in the department have master's degree or above, and is now the key specialty of traditional Chinese medicine in Jilin Province, and the director unit of the Breast Professional Committee of the Association of Integrative Traditional and Western Medicine of Jilin Province. The department adopts the method of integrative traditional Chinese and Western medicine (traditional Chinese medicine internal administration + external application, physiotherapy + minimally invasive rotary resection) to treat plasma cell mastitis and granulomatous mastitis, and achieves good clinical results. Respectively, the Provincial Health Commission and the Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine have been approved for scientific research projects, and for the first time in China to use this method to treat these two diseases, Wang Gang, head of the department, has compiled plasma cell mastitis and granulomatous mastitis into the textbook of the "13th Five-Year Plan" of traditional Chinese medicine in general higher education for the first time. The department can carry out laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery and conventional open classical surgery for breast, thyroid and thoracic surgical diseases, radioactive particle iodine-125 implantation for solid malignant tumors, and ultrasound-guided PICC catheterization.