2.
CONGENITAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER
Extra
Breast tissue may be found
anywhere along the milk line
(mid-clavicular to midinguinal point)
These supernumerary breasts may or may not have a nipple.
Absence of breast development (amastia)
is a
rare occurance.
Unilateral underdevelopment of breast is
more commonly observed.
3. BENIGN
BREAST DISEASE
3.1 BREAST
ABSCESS
Acute
mastitis occurs most often in the first fourteen days
of
lactation,the infecting
organisms are Staphylococcus or
Streptococci and they enter through an injury to the nipple
or
through the opening of the lactiferous
ducts.
The patient presents with a :
* Firm tender mass in the breast
* Fever and toxaemia
* Local redness and cellulitis
Treatment includes
- Stoppage of breast feeding
- Use of breast pump to relieve
engorgement with milk.
- Antibiotics
- Drainage of abscess (with a
radial incision is required
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