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Sachin Jain1, Punit Sharma, Anirban Mukherjee
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Milk coming from the breast of newborn is called "witch's milk", and it results from transplacental transfer of maternal hormones. We present a case of a 5-day-old female neonate with secretion of "witch's milk", prominent breast nodules, and uptake of 99mTc-perchnetate in bilateral breast nodules on Meckel scan. Familiarity with this uncommon though not unexpected finding is needed to avoid confusion while interpreting Meckel scintigraphy.
Milk coming from the breast of newborn is called "witch's milk", and it results from transplacental transfer of maternal hormones. We present a case of a 5-day-old female neonate with secretion of "witch's milk", prominent breast nodules, and uptake of 99mTc-perchnetate in bilateral breast nodules on Meckel scan. Familiarity with this uncommon though not unexpected finding is needed to avoid confusion while interpreting Meckel scintigraphy.
