Seven nipples in a male: World's second case report

@inproceedings{Goyal2012SevenNI,
  title={Seven nipples in a male: World's second case report},
  author={Tarang Goyal and S. K. Bakshi and Anupam Varshney},
  booktitle={Indian journal of human genetics},
  year={2012}
}
We present a case of seven nipples in a 32-year-old male patient. The patient had two regular nipples along with five supernumerary nipples. Usually, supernumerary nipples develop along the two vertical "milk lines" which start in the arm pit on each side, run down through the typical nipples, and end at the groin. Our patient had six nipples which confirm to the "milk lines" and one nipple which was above the umbilicus in the midline and did not confirm to the "milk lines." To our knowledge… 
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Seven nipples in a male: World's second case report
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This is the second case report with seven nipples in the world, and the patient had two regular nipples along with five supernumerary nipples.
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