How does the base (attached surface of the breast extend) vertically and transversally?

What is the lateral extension of the base of the breast?

Where is the nipple of the breast located?

What types of tissues are found in the breast and associated skin?

Where do the ducts of the glandular tissue open and lie?

The pigmented region of the breast is called?

What marks the openings of sebaceous glands (areolar glands) on the surface of the areola?

How many lobes of glandular tissue are in each lactiferous duct?

What surrounds the glands and lactiferous ducts and are also rich in blood supply and innervation?

What dilated segment opens on the nipple by the lactiferous duct?

What specific muscles do the breasts lie on?

What is the retromammary space?

Breast tumors that invade this space and attach to the underlying muscle(s), causing the breast to deviate in another direction, can indicate a more advanced carcinoma.

What are suspensory ligaments, or ligaments of Cooper?

What are the three sources of neurovascular supply to the breast?

Where do veins draining the breast drain into?

Where do ~75% of lymph vessels drain laterally and superiorly into?

Where does ~25% of lymph flow from the medial portion of the breast?

Where does lymph from the inferior portions of the breast drain?

What are the 5 groups that 20-30 axillary lymph nodes are divided into?

Where does lymph from the apical nodes flow to empty into the venous system?

What is the function of the pectoral (anterior) nodes?

What is the function of the humeral (lateral) nodes?

What is the function of the subscapular (posterior) nodes?

Where are the central nodes located?

What is the function of the apical nodes?

Tumor growth can block small superficial lymphatic channels resulting in these two complications.

What is the name of a prominent hypertrophic (thickened) skin changes that produces an orange-peel appearance?

What results in tumor growth pulling on and contracting the connective tissue ligaments (suspensory) of the breast?

What is an uncommon, yet severe, complication of a mastectomy?

After damage to the long thoracic nerve due to a mastectomy, what results?

Due to interruption of the lymphatic vessels/nodes within the axilla, mastectomy procedures often produce what? What condition does it lead to?

The internal thoracic artery is a branch of what major artery?

Lymph, derived from the apical node, from the right breast goes into the ___ ____ ____ .

Lymph, derived from the apical node, from the left breast goes into the ___ ____ ____.

What is the path of lymph drainage and a path that is often checked to see if cancer has occurred?

What is a common post-mastectomy plan of action to avoid issues of lymph draining?