Breast duct endoscopy?

In recent years, more and more women in my country have suffered from breast diseases. Among breast diseases, nipple discharge is a relatively common disease. If female friends feel that there is liquid flowing out of their nipples, they must go to the hospital for relevant examinations on breast diseases in time. Generally, the commonly used examination for nipple discharge is breast duct endoscopy, which can well determine breast diseases.

What is ductal endoscopy? Ductoscopy has now replaced ductalography and become the preferred method for diagnosing the cause of nipple discharge. Ductoscopy, also known as electronic breast fiber endoscope, has replaced ductalography and become the preferred method for diagnosing the cause of nipple discharge. Ductoscopy is easy to operate, less invasive, and intuitive, which effectively improves the diagnosis rate of raised lesions in the milk ducts. It can also be used to treat benign milk duct lesions, such as ductoscopy-assisted minimally invasive resection of diseased milk ducts, treatment of plasma cell mastitis, and guidewire positioning of intraductal tumors. The structure of the ductoscope includes an image transmission and light guiding part, a camera and light source part, an image display part, and an image management and output part. The ductoscope system includes a fiberscope, a camera system, a cold light source system, a display system and a computer-controlled recording system, which can collect static and dynamic image records in real time.

Advantages of ductoscopy

1. Under normal circumstances, it is a non-invasive examination surgery;

2. It can be examined under direct vision and can serve as a basis for clinical diagnosis, clarifying the surgical indications for breast disease patients with nipple discharge but no palpable masses, and exempting patients with only symptoms such as duct dilatation from surgery; at the same time, it provides a reliable basis for the early diagnosis of breast cancer;

3. It provides three-dimensional surgical positioning, clarifies the site and scope of the operation, improves the accuracy and success rate of the operation, and reduces the scope of the operation. For example, the distance of the intraductal cancer lesion from the nipple can be correctly determined;

4. With the help of the instrument channel of the ductoscope, some surgical and inspection instruments can directly enter the milk duct cavity. For example, cells from the lesion site can be brushed with a cell brush (no longer by sucking the fluid in the cavity to obtain cell samples) for cytological examination, and single benign spinous tumors can be removed with instruments (such as a basket) to complete some local surgeries;

5. With the development of clinical medicine, ductoscopy will create favorable conditions for the direct removal of tumors in the breast duct using laser technology.