Case 35321

Abstract

Presentation of Case First admission. A twenty-nine-year-old married woman entered the hospital because of a nontender lump in her left breast.She noticed this lump about six weeks before entry, and it apparently had not increased in size since then. There had not been any bleeding from the nipple or soreness under the arm. The patient was nine and a half months post partum, having delivered a normal girl, her first child. She did not nurse the child because she did not believe she was emotionally suited to nursing. There was no weight loss or anorexia.Except for the local . . .