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It is sometimes equated with duct ectasia, but other forms can be described.

Smokers seem more often affected by duct ectasia syndrome although the reported results are not entirely consistent.

Women are about twice as often diagnosed with gastric antral vascular ectasia than men.

Duct ectasia syndrome in the classical meaning is associated with additional histological changes.

Dural ectasia is usually not visible on an X-ray in the early phases.

Signs of duct ectasia can include nipple retraction, inversion, pain, and sometimes bloody discharge.

Antral ectasia (watermelon stomach) and carcinoma of the stomach have presented in this way.

Duct ectasia of breast, a dilated milk duct.

Dural ectasia is an example of a spinal cord lesion that may affect continence.

Mammary duct ectasia can mimic breast cancer.

Mammary duct ectasia.

In fact, laser therapy may actually enhance vessel ectasia and promote intra-retinal fibrosis in these individuals.

Increases in corneal curvature are thought to be caused by corneal thinning-induced ectasia.

In the cerebrovascular system there is an increased incidence of stroke together with vessel ectasia [ 7 ] .

Corneal ectasia (secondary keratoconus), a bulging of the cornea.

Gastric antral vascular ectasia, dilation of small blood vessels in the last part of the stomach.

In most cases, the isolated or simple form is characterized by widening of the bile ducts (dilatation or ectasia).

Keratoconus occurring after refractive surgery is called Corneal Ectasia.

Epithelial thickness profile as a method to evaluate the effectiveness of collagen cross-linking treatment after corneal ectasia.

Blood from the nipples is nearly always benign and frequently associated with duct ectasia, it should only be investigated when it is unilateral.

Rete tubular ectasia, dilation of tubular structures in the testicles.

Annuloaortic ectasia, dilation of the aorta.

Correlation of duct widening with the "classical" symptoms of duct ectasia syndrome is unclear.

Both duct widening and duct ectasia syndrome are frequently bilateral, hence systemic causes are likely involved.

Duct ectasia syndrome has been associated with histopathological findings that are distinct from a simple duct widening.

They are used in the treatment of conditions including bullous keratopathy, dry eyes, corneal abrasions and erosion, keratitis, corneal edema, descemetocele, corneal ectasis, Mooren's ulcer, anterior corneal dystrophy, and neurotrophic keratoconjunctivitis.