. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . g upon the Accumulation and Detention of the Normal or ModifiedProduct of Secretion in the Larger Ducts of the Breast.—Galactocele.—Such comprisethe group commonly known as galactoceles or lacteal cysts, and are true retention introduction of the term galactocele is credited by Abell, who gives no referenceto the original text, to De Lambell (1845) who defines galactocele as a form of tumorwhich springs from one of the milk ducts forming a cyst. The two criteria for theirformation are, that the gland shall have been sec
. The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment . g upon the Accumulation and Detention of the Normal or ModifiedProduct of Secretion in the Larger Ducts of the Breast.—Galactocele.—Such comprisethe group commonly known as galactoceles or lacteal cysts, and are true retention introduction of the term galactocele is credited by Abell, who gives no referenceto the original text, to De Lambell (1845) who defines galactocele as a form of tumorwhich springs from one of the milk ducts forming a cyst. The two criteria for theirformation are, that the gland shall have been secreting at the time of formation, andthat a duct shall have become obstructed prior to or at the same time. The best monograph upon the subject, and that which the interested reader shouldperuse is by Nordmann, tJber die Galactocele, Virchows Archiv, 1897, CXLVII, 475- In our section describing the physiology of the breast it has been shown that milksecretion is possible in both male and female breasts, under a variety of conditions. CYSTS OF THE BREAST 261. Naturally as milk secretion is normal to the female breast only, and only during theperiod of lactation, it is to be expected that galactoceles shall be most frequent in thebreasts of women and shall appear sooner or later after lactation has begun, though thepossibility of their occurrence under other circumstances is to be kept in mind. According to the requirements of the accepted definition, the galactocele mustcontain milk, but the term milk, as here used, means mammary secretion, and one needonly glance at a few of the pubhshed descriptions to find that the contents of galactocelesdiffer greatly in different cases. This is only to be expected if one considers what milkis, and what conditions obtain in galactoceles. Milk is water, containing casein, sugar,fat and some salts. Though the proportions of these ingredients maintains an averagethat is looked upon as the standard ofnormality, there are variations in differ
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