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Is aberrant mammary tissue a marker for chronic alcoholism or kidney-urinary tract malformations?
F M Camacho1, J C Moreno-Giménez, M J García-Hernández
1Department of Dermatology, Virgen Macarena Hospital, Sevilla, Spain.
Background:
Numerous publications describe the relationship between aberrant mammary tissue (AMT) and kidney-urinary tract malformations, individual/ familial alcoholism and sense organ disorders.
Patients And Methods:
We investigated these possible associations and reviewed 72 cases observed in our Department during the past 3 years: 30 men and 42 women, 17 of them with bilateral AMT (7 men and 10 women) and 25 patients from 9 families. Diagnosis was made according to Kajawa's classification. A detailed family history was performed asking for individual or familial alcoholism, especially in the mother, in addition to blood tests and ultrasonographic examination of the abdomen and the kidneys.
Results:
We only found 1 family history of alcoholism in 3 families, but in the father, never in the mother or the affected subject. No congenital/ hereditary nephrourinary defects or sense organ disorders were found.
Conclusions:
We believe that in our population AMT is not a marker for alcoholism, kidney-urinary malformations nor sense organ disorders.