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I. LESION IN RABBITS RESEMBLING CHRONIC CYSTIC MASTITIS

CARSON L. FIFER, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1934;29(4):555-559.

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In the course of detailed studies of the histologic changes in the mammary gland of the rabbit during the growth and sexual cycles certain changes similar to chronic cystic mastitis in man were noted. The entire study will be offered for publication in a special journal. The observations here reported are, however, of sufficient general interest to deserve a wider audience.

Schill¹ in the course of a somewhat similar study incidentally mentioned somewhat similar observations. No pathologic interpretation was made.

During the present studies it was found that in the resting stages (i. e., the male breast, the virgin female breast and the resting postlactation breast) the rabbit's breast presents a histologic picture which is in substance identical with the pathologic picture known in the human breast as chronic cystic mastitis. The elements of this picture are: cyst formation, epithelial hyperplasia and metaplasia, mixed cell infiltration, erosion of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
UNIVERSITY, VA.

From the Department of Surgery and Gynecology, University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Footnotes
This article includes a small portion of the work presented in candidacy for the degree of Master of Science, June 1932, University of Virginia.

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