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Developmental Problems - Breast

Inverted nipples are common. If a previously normal nipple inverts Þ cancer until proven otherwise (although nipple retraction is more likely to be inflammatory than malignant)

Developmental Problems

 

·        Inverted nipples are common. If a previously normal nipple inverts Þ cancer until proven otherwise (although nipple retraction is more likely to be inflammatory than malignant)

 

·        Virginal/ Adolescent Hypertrophy: very large breasts developing around puberty. Problem with stroma. Aetiology unknown


·        Hypomastia: almost complete failure of breast development.  May be unilateral


·        Accessory nipples (don‟t have lobular tissue underneath)

 

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