. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . ouchements, etc., Paris, 1887. Other cases of mammary glands upon the thigh are now on record and must be con-sidered in connection with this case of Roberts. As their situation is not identical, some ofthem may have to be regarded as true mammae erraticae, while Roberts case may beone of reversion, following what is seen in Lagostomus. 78 THE BREAST Hug, J.—Inaugural Dissertation, Strassburg, 1908. In his essay upon Sitz und Vorkommenuberziihliger Brustdriisen und Brustwarzen beim Weibe, Hug mentions, without par-ticulars, two c
. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . ouchements, etc., Paris, 1887. Other cases of mammary glands upon the thigh are now on record and must be con-sidered in connection with this case of Roberts. As their situation is not identical, some ofthem may have to be regarded as true mammae erraticae, while Roberts case may beone of reversion, following what is seen in Lagostomus. 78 THE BREAST Hug, J.—Inaugural Dissertation, Strassburg, 1908. In his essay upon Sitz und Vorkommenuberziihliger Brustdriisen und Brustwarzen beim Weibe, Hug mentions, without par-ticulars, two cases of supernumerary mammae on the thigh, that came under observation inthe Strassburg clinic: Frau M.—Who had supernumerary nipples in the right axillary line,on the abdomen, and on the thigh, and Frau Louisa F., aet. 21 years, on the outer side ofwhose left thigh there was i pigmented wart surrounded by a pigmented area the size ofa quarter doUar. It was undoubtedly a supernumerary mammary gland with a is not stated whether it secreted or Fig. 44.—-Therese Ventre, the famouscase of mammary gland on the outerside of the thigh, reported by Robert,Chaussier and Magendie. (Witkowski.) Fig. 45.—Polymastia.—A small supernumerarymammary gland, with a nipple and a deeply pig-mented areola, on the outer side of the left thigh ofa man. (Hug.) PiNEO.—Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, i856, LXXIV, 181. A negro, a man, aged 40 yearshas a congenital tumor on the anterior aspect of the right thigh at about the junction ofthe upper and middle thirds. It is about 4}^^ inches in diameter and has a glandular feelwhen palpated. In the middle there is an elevation like a nipple with a depression at itspoint, and it strongly resembles a female mamma. No further information is given, andno microscopic studies could be made. The evidence of the mammary nature of the for-mation is entirely objective and external. Had the patient been a woman and lactationoccurred, no f
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