Nipple necrosis is a usual complication after breast plastic surgery, however a spontaneous necrosis of the nipple is exceptional and especially without any apparent etiology. We searched in all accessible databases without finding a similar case in the literature. It's a about a 14 years old girl, refugee in Zaatari camp in Jordan. In her medical history, we found a purulent pleurisy of atypic...

Leiomyoma of the nipple is a rare, benign, non-epithelial tumor that is thought to arise from smooth muscle fibers in the subareolar tissue of the breast. We report an unusual case of leiomyoma of the nipple in a 32-year-old woman in whom the diagnosis was made by ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy. She came to our hospital complaining of a recently enlarged nipple with discharge and erosion ...

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background: oxytocin infusion is used for induction or augmentation of labor to prevent prolonged labor. a cheap and nonaggressive alternative which is effectively used for contraction stress test is nipple stimulation. however research regarding its efficacy and safety is still limited. this study aims to compare the effectiveness of nipple stimulation and oxytocin infusion on the duration of ...

BACKGROUND The debate over nipple-sparing mastectomy continues to evolve. Over the past several years, it has become more widely accepted, especially in the setting of prophylactic mastectomy, but its role in the treatment of breast cancer has only recently been reexamined. METHODS Two indications for the procedure are discussed: prophylactic, for the high-risk patient; and the more controver...

In order to achieve a successful breast-feeding, an infant needs to suck the whole bulk of nipple and almost hundred to eighty percentage of the areola. That is why abnormal nipple conditions such as inverted nipple may result in problems with starting, establishing and maintaining breast-feeding (Hytten 1954). Nipple inversion may cause cosmetic, functional, and psychological problems. Some of...

Clear cell acanthoma (CCA) is a rare benign epidermal tumor. It usually presents as a flat nodule or dome-shaped plaque and is often localized on the legs of the elderly. We observed an unusual case of polypoid CCA on the nipple of a 14-year-old girl. At present, a few cases of CCA on the nipple area have been reported in the literature. However, CCA presented as a polypoid tumor on the nipple ...

INTRODUCTION Various techniques have been used in an attempt to achieve long-term nipple projection following nipple-areolar reconstruction. A common setback, however, is the diminution of projection overtime; this phenomenon is particularly evident following implant-based breast reconstruction. Artecoll may be suitable for injection into the nipple complex to maintain permanent, 3-dimensional ...

Reliable diagnosis of abnormalities is often the case that a mammogram of a woman is compared with previous mammograms. The location of the nipple is invaluable in registration, imaging modality fusion, and as a reference point for classifying microcalcification clusters. Therefore, detecting nipple is important for analyze mammogram images. There are many methods for nipple detection, but they...

AIM To assess the value of nipple and quadrant sections in mastectomy specimens for carcinoma in detecting Paget's disease and multifocal carcinoma. METHODS Two hundred and forty eight consecutive mastectomies performed for carcinoma were reviewed. The presence of Paget's disease of the nipple and mode of identification of any multifocal carcinoma was recorded. RESULTS Nipple sections showe...