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The Healthy Breast

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It is truly sobering that the female breast — celebrated by poets1, a sex symbol, and a major source of income for plastic surgeons — is, from a phylogenetic standpoint, a modified cutaneous sweat gland. During ontogenesis, the human breast initially undergoes the same phylogenetic phases that occur in mammals with multiple paired mammary glands.

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Lanyi, M. (2003). The Healthy Breast. In: Mammography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55632-6_1

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