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Breast Abscess Patient Diagnosis and Treatment
Journal Entry
In my 4th week clinic I have learned more about patient diagnosis and treatment. Breast abscess can be caused by several different factors. To begin with, it can develop as a defensive reaction against infections and similarly, due to presence of foreign objects which causes accumulation of pus in the breast tissue. In this case the effect manifested itself in form of a greenish drainage.
Abscess can occur anywhere in the body. However, most breast abscess develops in women who are lactating and breast feeding. Breast abscess occurring in non lactating women are a bit unusual and initially can be a sign and symptom for breast cancer. A woman who has undergone breast cancer treatment is likely to have the abscess (Bosma, Morden, Klein, Neal, Knoepp & Patterson, 2016).
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The abscess is normally accompanied with pain and breast tenderness. However, not all abscesses are accompanied by inflammation making their diagnosing a difficult matter. My patient’s pus in this case the greenish drainage will be collected and tested to know the type of infection. The type of bacteria causing the abscess should be examined so as to give the best treatment since same bacteria are prone to some kind of treatment (Bosma, Morden, Klein, Neal, Knoepp & Patterson, 2016).
Blood test and ultrasound can also be done to check the patents immune and determine what structures of the skin are being affected by the infection. The above information is more likely to relate to an individual living with breast cancer. My patient is likely suffering from breast cancer. Breast cancer does not only show itself through inflammations but also breast abscess especially in non-lactating women.
The collection of fluids in the breast that is the greenish fluid commonly turns out to be an invasive cancer. The complains of the abscess in breast cancer normally associate itself with non-healing breast abscess despite use of antibiotics; through the previous weeks, patients not lactating, elderly patents and breast abscess associated with hard lumps in the breast (Bosma, Morden, Klein, Neal, Knoepp & Patterson, 2016).
References
Bosma, M. S., Morden, K. L., Klein, K. A., Neal, C. H., Knoepp, U. S., & Patterson, S. K. (2016). Breast imaging after dark: patient outcomes following evaluation for breast abscess in the emergency department after hours. Emergency radiology, 23(1), 29-33.
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