Breast Intro/Normal

Question 1

When we are thinking of embryology of the breast, what is the breast and what does it derive from?

Answer 1

Modified sweat gland.

Skin

Question 2

What and where is the milk line?

Answer 2

Breast tissue develops from the milk line and runs from the axilla to the vulva.

Question 3

What is the functional unit of the breast?

Answer 3

Terminal duct lobular unit

Question 4

What is the job of the lobule and the duct?

Answer 4

Lobule makes the milk and the duct drains it to the nipple

Question 5

What is unique about the epithelium in the terminal ducts and the lobules in the breast?

Answer 5

Two layers. Inner luminal layer and an outer myoepithelial layer than has contractile capacity.

Question 6

What part of the breast has the highest density of breast tissue after breast development?

Answer 6

Upper outer quadrant

Question 7

How do we define galactorrhea?

Answer 7

Milk production outside of lactation

Question 8

Galactorrhea is not a symptom of what disease?

Answer 8

Breast cancer

Question 9

2 common causes of galactorrhea?

Answer 9

Pituitary adenoma (lactotroph adenoma) and some drugs can