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Breast development is commonly asymmetric and one or both breasts may be small. This condition may be a congenital defect associated with underlying abnormalities of the pectoral muscle (as in Poland's syndrome [ 2 ] ), related to trauma (typically surgery or radiotherapy ) or it may be a more subjective aesthetic description.
The symptoms of anxiety and depression disorders can be very similar. A diagnosis of mixed anxiety–depressive disorder as opposed to a diagnosis of depression or an anxiety disorder can be difficult. Due to this, it has long been a struggle to find a singular set of criteria to use in the diagnosis of mixed-anxiety depressive disorder. [3]
This is an alphabetically sorted list of all mental disorders in the DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR, along with their ICD-9-CM codes, where applicable. The DSM-IV-TR is a text revision of the DSM-IV. [ 1 ] While no new disorders were added in this version, 11 subtypes were added and 8 were removed.
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is an international standard diagnostic classification for a wide variety of health conditions. The ICD-10 states that mental disorder is "not an exact term", although is generally used "...to imply the existence of a clinically recognisable set of symptoms or behaviours associated in most cases with distress and with interference with ...
But as we age, hormones roller coaster, scar tissue calcifies, breast ducts get “weird,” and cells get “atypical.” Now, there’s less following and more “investigating”…which means ...
All women who undergo breast cancer screening with a mammogram in the U.S. must now find out if they have dense breasts — a risk factor for developing breast cancer.. Starting Tuesday, Sept. 10 ...
Dense breast tissue, also known as dense breasts, is a condition of the breasts where a higher proportion of the breasts are made up of glandular tissue and fibrous tissue than fatty tissue. Around 40–50% of women have dense breast tissue and one of the main medical components of the condition is that mammograms are unable to differentiate ...
The specifics can matter, though, says Berg, as an extremely dense breast has at least a four-fold higher risk of developing breast cancer than its fatty counterpart.