title: Bloody nipple discharge (BND) in an 8 months old girl and a 9 months old male--rational diagnostic approach.
abstract: Bloody nipple discharge in adults is, in men as well as in women, often a symptom of an underlying malignant disease. In respect of this, multiple invasive and mutilating diagnostic procedures have been performed in infants and older children. Apart from individual cases in older and pubertal children, in childhood benign conditions are most common and can be diagnosed by non-invasive diagnostic procedures. Here we discuss a rational diagnostic approach on the basis of 2 patients with bloody nipple discharge at the age of 8 and 9 months which resolved spontaneously without treatment after 3 and 6 months, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Allgemeine Pädiatrie, Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Moorenstrasse 5, Düsseldorf, Germany. stefani.harmsen@med.uni-duesseldorf.de
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Harmsen
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mayatepek
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Klee
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Meissner
mesh_terms: D001769:Blood; D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D005122:Exudates and Transudates / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D042361:Mammary Glands, Human / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D009558:Nipples / Q000378:metabolism*; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous