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Papilla mammaria

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Papilla mammaria. Image copyright: University of Oslo, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. (Tissue stain: H+E).

This is a section cut  perpedicularly through the papilla mammaria (you can perhaps recognize it from its form). The biggest and tallest part in the middle is the papilla and the smaller parts on each side belong to the areola. Below the papilla and the areola you see some normal breast tissue.

Published July 29th 2019, updated August 28th 2020.