Bilateral aberrant axillary breast tissue

Bilateral aberrant axillary breast tissue.

Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol | November-December 2009 | Vol 75 | Issue 6 Polymastia means the accessory breast glandular tissue with or without nipple and areola.[1] The presence of an extra nipple (polythelia) and breast (polymastia) is not uncommon.[2] Between 1 and 5% of men and women have polythelia or, less frequently, polymastia. Most cases are sporadic, but approximately 6% are fami...

Bilateral axillary vein thrombosis.

UPPER limb thrombosis accounts for only one per cent of all deep vein thromboses.' This may be because there are fewer valves in the arm veins, along with increased fibrinolytic activity and decreased hydrostatic pressure.2 The aetiology is primary and secondary. The primary cause is thought to be mechanical due to anatomical factors in that the axillary vein passes through a triangle composed ...

Pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia presenting as accessory axillary breast tissue

Fibroadenoma of the Ectopic Axillary Breast Tissue: Sonographic Appearances

Ectopic breast tissue is reported to occur in 0.4% 6% of women. Breast neoplasms may develop in ectopic breast tissue, as in eutopic breast tissue. The most frequent condition in ectopic breast is breast cancer. Fibroadenomas of ectopic breast tissue have been reported, but are rare. We report two cases of fibroadenomas of ectopic axillary breast tissues. The sonographic appearance of the nodul...

Cyclosporine-A therapy-induced multiple bilateral breast and accessory axillary breast fibroadenomas: a case report

INTRODUCTION Breast adenoma is common. However, in the setting of post-transplantation immune suppression it may be expressed differently. CASE PRESENTATION A 35-year-old Sudanese woman, with a history of renal transplantation two and half years prior to presentation, was on a single immune suppression therapy in the form of cyclosporine-A since the transplantation. During a regular follow-up...