Sentence examples for breast retraction from inspiring English sources

These are used for the calculation of a breast retraction assessment (BRA) score.

After a median follow-up of 50 months, up to 22% grade 2 and 3 long term side-effects like fibrosis, breast retraction or teleangiectasia occurred [ 24].

The mice in the VRP- neu-vaccinated group were killed at this time, and gross pathologic examination of the breasts following retraction of the skin did not reveal any tumors.

Older women were less likely to perceive nipple eczema, changes in the shape or size of the breast, and nipple retraction as symptoms of breast cancer.

In line with previous findings (Facione, 1993), less than half the sample recognised dimpling of the breast skin, nipple retraction or nipple eczema as symptoms of breast cancer.

Complete replacement of breast tissue, nipple retraction and deviation, oedema and ulceration of overlying skin, breast swelling with axillary nodal involvement were the most frequent clinical presentation.

A spiculated mass with no calcification was noted in mammograms of the superior left breast, with skin retraction and thickening suggestive of malignancy.

In 2010, an international panel of leading experts recommended the clinical consensus for a minimal standard diagnosis of IBC include erythema occupying at least one-third of the breast, hardening and retraction of the nipple, dimpling (peau d'orange) of the skin, and no response to antibiotic treatment [ 2].

Skin retraction or breast asymmetry can indicate an underlying, potentially serious lesion.

These areas of multifocal capsular retraction in breast cancer metastases have thus also been classified as pseudocirrhosis of the liver [15, 16, 17].

Open image in new window Fig. 5 A 73-year-old man with a history of CLL and a new palpable mass in the left breast with associated nipple retraction.