lactiferous duct

The lactiferous duct should be normal without any retraction.

The majority of breast diseases either originate from lactiferous ducts or are closely related.

Each lobule has a lactiferous duct that drains into openings in the nipple.

Lactiferous duct development occurs in females in response to circulating hormones.

But a functional lactiferous duct tree can be formed again when a female is pregnant again.

The lactiferous ducts are mildly retracted but do not need to be cut for the release of fibrosis.

Under the areola are lactiferous ducts.

The fibrosis is remarkable and lactiferous ducts are short and severely retracted.

When a woman is not lactating, the lactiferous duct is frequently blocked by a keratin plug.

Breast duct endoscopy is a method used to examine the lining of the lactiferous ducts to look for abnormal tissue.

Lactiferous ducts are lined by a columnar epithelium supported by myoepithelial cells.

Surgery may also damage the lactiferous ducts and the nerves of the nipple-areola complex (NAC).

The last section of the lactiferous ducts is always lined with squamous keratinizing epithelium which appears to have important physiological functions.

When the lactiferous duct tree is almost ready, "leaves" alveoli are differentiated from luminal epithelial cells and added at the end of each branch.

Lactiferous ducts form a tree branched system connecting the lobules of the mammary gland to the tip of the nipple.

It has been speculated that either the direct toxic effect or hormonal changes related to smoking could cause squamous metaplasia of lactiferous ducts.

Within the areola, the lactiferous duct were thought to dilate to form the lactiferous sinus in which supposedly milk accumulates between breastfeeding sessions.

Also called Zuska's disease (only nonpuerperal case), is a frequently aseptic inflammation and has been associated with squamous metaplasia of the lactiferous ducts.

A nipple adenoma is a type of intraductal papilloma that arises within the lactiferous ducts that are located within the nipple.

(The milk ducts [lactiferous ducts] are the channels that carry milk secreted by lobes of the breast to the nipple.)

Their binding ensures correct placement of prolactin receptors on the basal lateral side of alveoli cells and directional secretion of milk into lactiferous ducts.

Keratinizing squamous metaplasia of lactiferous ducts may play a similar role in the pathogenesis of nonpuerperal subareolar abscess.

In SMOLD the keratinizing lining which is supposed to form only the ends of the lactiferous ducts extends deep into the ducts.

The glands that produce milk (mammary glands) that are connected to the surface of the breast by the lactiferous ducts may extend to the armpit area (axilla).

In the anatomy of mammals, a nipple, mammary papilla or teat is a small projection of skin containing the outlets for 15-20 lactiferous ducts arranged cylindrically around the tip.