Mammary duct ectasia in children presenting bloody nipple discharge: a case in a pubertal girl.
Mammary duct ectasia occurs rarely in childhood. The authors report on the case of a pubertal girl who was operated on for duct ectasia with bloody nipple discharge. Duct ectasia is regarded as a primary lesion; it is considered to be a cause of bloody secretion, and it has a mechanism similar to that of mammary duct papilloma.
Kitahara
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Second Department of Surgery, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University, and the Department of Surgery, Kobayashi Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Wakabayashi
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M
Shiba
T
T
Nonaka
K
K
Nonaka
H
H
Kobayashi
I
I
D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic; D005122:Exudates and Transudates; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009558:Nipples / Q000378:metabolism*; D011627:Puberty