APOPLEXY OF THE BREAST

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This report concerns the unusual occurrence of copious hemorrhage into the breast without antecedent trauma, tumor or other local disease. Reference to the condition cannot be found in the literature. Hemorrhage into cysts of the parenchymatous tissue of the breast does occur, and blood cysts associated with papillomas have been reported. Even such lesions, however, are uncommon. In this case a large series of microscopic sections failed to reveal any pathologic changes suggesting tumor, and trauma seemed to be ruled out by the fact that the lesion appeared while the patient was in bed, convalescing from a light case of bronchopneumonia. REPORT OF CASE History. —Mrs. M. B., aged 55, a widow and the mother of three children, was referred to me by her physician, Dr. D. C. Dennett of Winchester, Mass., because of a discolored mass that appeared in the left breast during the course of convalescence from a

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