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Endoscopic Bilateral Nipple-sparing Mastectomy via a Single Axillary Incision with Immediate Pre-pectoral Implant-based Breast Reconstruction
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Axillary polymastia
Anne E Burdick1, Kavita A Thomas, Esperanza Welsh
1Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, University of Miami School of Medicine, 1600 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136, USA. aburdick@med.miami.edu
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|November 26, 2003
Abstract:
"Polymastia" is a term used to describe the presence of more than 2 breasts in human beings. It is synonymous with supernumerary or accessory breast tissue. Accessory breast tissue has the potential to undergo the same benign and malignant changes as normal pectoral breast tissue.

