Your Patient Is a Nursing Mother Who Asks You to Look

question 12

Multiple Choice

Your patient is a nursing mother who asks you to look at a mole she has under her left breast at the inframammary fold. The mole is nontender and soft and has grown in size since she started nursing. There are no other changes to the mole. This mole probably represents an undiagnosed:

• A) Montgomery tubercle.
• B) case of Paget disease.
• C) supernumerary nipple.
• D) fat necrosis.

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Definitions:

Months Old

A way of expressing the age of a person, typically a baby or young child, in terms of the number of months since birth.

Still-face Technique

A research method where a caregiver maintains a blank expression toward a child to study the child's social communication response.

Facial Expressions

Visible changes in the face that communicate emotions, reactions, or intentions without the use of words.

Exaggerating

The act of making something seem larger, more important, or more serious than it actually is.