What are the small protrusions on the skin of the areola?

  Women often come to the breast surgery clinic with small, goose-pimple-like bumps on the skin of the areola, and they are very nervous that they might have a breast tumor. In fact, these are called “Montgomery’s glands”, also known as “Montgomery’s nodes”, which are normal areola skin appendages. It is not a tumor and there is no treatment problem.  If the rash does not improve after a month or two of regular treatment, a pathological biopsy of the nipple areola skin should be considered to determine if it is eczema-like breast cancer (Paget’s disease), which is completely different from the treatment of eczema of the nipple areola.