Just two days after giving birth, a woman in Portugal told her doctors that she’d begun to develop pain in her right armpit.When the doctors examined her they discovered a “round, firm” mass which surprisingly “released a white discharge when pressed” according to a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The authors of the paper, Dr Cristiana Marinho-Soares and Dr Maria Pulido-Valente, both from the Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon, Portugal, realised that this discharge was breastmilk.
Image:
The woman was discovered to be lactating from her armpit. Pic: Dr Marinho-Soares, Dr Pulido-Valente, NEJM
The …
