Breast

The term breast, also known by the Latin mamma in anatomy, refers to the upper ventral region of an animal's torso, particularly that of mammals, including human beings. Furthermore, the breasts are parts of a female mammal's body which contain the organs that secrete milk used to feed infants.

Disorders of the breasts

Infections and inflammations

• Mastitis
• bacterial mastitis
• mastitis from milk engorgement
• mastitis of mumps
• subareolar mastitis
• Other infections
• chronic intramammary abscess
• chronic subareolar abscess
• tuberculosis of the breast
• syphilis of the breast
• retromammary abscess
• actinomycosis of the breast
• Inflammations
• Mondor's disease
• duct ectasia/periductal masbreastis

Benign breast disease

• Congenital disorders
• inverted nipple
• supernumerary nipples/supernumerary breasts
• Aberrations of normal development and involution
• fibroadenomatosis
• cyclical nodularity
• cysts
• fibroadenoma - benign tumor
• Duct ectasia/Periductal masbreastis
• nipple discharge
• abscesses
• mammary fistula
• Epithelial hyperplasia*
• Pregnancy-related
• galactocoele
• puerperal abscess

Malignant breast disease

• breast cancer (mammary carcinoma)
• carcinoma in situ
• Paget's disease of the nipple or Paget's disease of the breast