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The Female Breast K W Ong Breast & General Surgery :: K W Ong Medical Consultancy – Breast & General Surgery

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Female breasts are designed to produce milk. Each breast has many milk-producing glands arranged in 15 to 20 sections called lobes.These glands and lobes are linked by milk ducts that lead to the nipple located in the centre of a dark area of skin called the areola. Fibrous tissue and fat surround these lobes and help give the breasts their structure and shape.Each breast also contains blood vessels, lymph vessels, lymph nodes and nerves. The lymph vessels carry colourless fluid called lymph, a fluid formed in the body’s tissues, and drain to small bean- shaped glands called lymph nodes.