Lactiferous ducts are ducts that converge and form a branched system connecting the nipple to the lobules of the mammary gland. When lactogenesis occurs...

inflammation and has been associated with squamous metaplasia of lactiferous ducts. The term is usually understood to include breast abscesses located...

These alveoli join to form groups known as lobules. Each lobule has a lactiferous duct that drains into openings in the nipple. The myoepithelial cells contract...

females, milk from the mammary gland leaves the body through the lactiferous ducts to nurse an infant. The milk can flow through the nipple passively...

anatomy and physiology, a duct is a circumscribed channel leading from an exocrine gland or organ. Examples include: As ducts travel from the acinus which...

has several small openings arranged radially around the tip of the lactiferous ducts, from which milk is released during lactation. The other small openings...

of lactiferous ducts and fistulation. Simple duct widening should be carefully distinguished from more complex histological changes. "Mammary duct ectasia"...

in which the term is mostly used, duct ectasia is an inflammatory condition of the larger-order lactiferous ducts. It is considered likely that the condition...

no fibrosis. There is no soft-tissue deficiency of the nipple. The lactiferous duct should be normal without any retraction.[medical citation needed] Inverted...

the lactiferous tissue is within 30 mm of the base of the nipple. The terminal lactiferous ducts drain the milk from TDLUs into 4–18 lactiferous ducts, which...

caused by the obstruction of a lactiferous duct. Clinically, they appear similar to a cyst upon examination. The duct becomes more distended over time...

Microdochectomy is the surgical removal (excision) of a lactiferous duct. A mere incision of a mammary duct (without excision) is called microdochotomy. Microdochectomy...

system based on the density of female breasts and the prominence of fibral duct tissue. He also noted that the higher the density of a woman's breasts and...

to help perform a diagnostic evaluation of the lactiferous ducts (duct sonography) and make dilated ducts and intraductal masses visible. Galactography...

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Central duct excision is the surgical removal (excision) of all lactiferous duct under the nipple. The excision of a single duct is called microdochectomy...

originates in a lactiferous duct as opposed to the lobules that form the alveoli in the breasts' mammary glands (lobules make the milk which the ducts channel...

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evaluation carcinomatous cells are seen below the basement membrane of lactiferous ducts and invade into the surrounding breast stroma. Otherwise, there are...

demonstrate that a superolaterally oriented "tail" of breast fat (with or without ductal tissue) is rarely if ever present. Instead, upper lateral chest anatomy...

composed of lobules of glandular tissue, each of which is drained by a lactiferous duct that empties to the nipple. Most of the volume (ca. 90%) and rounded...

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A blocked milk duct (sometimes also called plugged or clogged milk duct) is a blockage of one or more ducts carrying milk to the nipple for the purpose...

contain 15 to 20 of these lobules. The lobules drain milk through the lactiferous ducts out of the nipples. Breastfeeding Lactation Susan Blackburn (14 April...

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breast abscess in this article). Keratinizing squamous metaplasia of lactiferous ducts may play a similar[clarification needed] role in the pathogenesis...

breastfeeding, reduced or diverted milk flow, and the infection of blocked lactiferous ducts. Inverted nipples are primarily a cosmetic problem but might interfere...

intra-alveolar pressure forces milk into the lactiferous sinuses, into the lactiferous ducts (a study found that lactiferous sinuses may not exist. If this is true...