IS ABERRANT MAMMARY TISSUE A MARKER FOR CHRONIC-ALCOHOLISM OR KIDNEY URINARY-TRACT MALFORMATIONS

Background: Numerous publications describe the relationship between ab errant mammary tissue (AMT) and kidney-urinary tract malformations, in dividual/familial alcoholism and sense organ disorders. Patients and M ethods: We investigated these possible associations and reviewed 72 ca ses observed in our Department during the past 3 years: 30 men and 42 women, 17 of them with bilateral AMT (7 men and 10 women) and 25 patie nts from 9 families. Diagnosis was made according to Kajawa's classifi cation. A detailed family history was performed asking for individual or familial alcoholism, especially in the mother in addition to blood tests and ultrasonographic examination of the abdomen and the kidneys. Results: We only found 1 family history of alcoholism in 3 families, but in the father, never in the mother or the affected subject. No con genital/hereditary nephrourinary defects or sense organ disorders were found, Conclusions: We believe that in our population AMT is not a ma rker for alcoholism, kidney-urinary malformations nor sense organ diso rders.