An idiopathic gigantomastia

Gigantomastia is a rare condition characterized by excessive breast growth. It has been reported that the majority of gigantomastia cases occur during either pregnancy or puberty. We were presented with a rare case of gigantomastia associated with neither pregnancy nor puberty, and successfully trea...

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Autores principales: Cho, Min Jeng, Yang, Jung-Hyun, Choi, Hyeon-Gon, Kim, Wan Seop, Yu, Yeong-Beom, Park, Kyoung Sik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Surgical Society 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4347046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25741497
http://dx.doi.org/10.4174/astr.2015.88.3.166
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author Cho, Min Jeng
Yang, Jung-Hyun
Choi, Hyeon-Gon
Kim, Wan Seop
Yu, Yeong-Beom
Park, Kyoung Sik
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description Gigantomastia is a rare condition characterized by excessive breast growth. It has been reported that the majority of gigantomastia cases occur during either pregnancy or puberty. We were presented with a rare case of gigantomastia associated with neither pregnancy nor puberty, and successfully treated it with reduction mammaplasty and free nipple graft. This idiopathic gigantomastia is the very first case in Korea, and adds to the worldwide total of 9 reported cases.
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spelling pubmed-43470462015-03-04 An idiopathic gigantomastia Cho, Min Jeng Yang, Jung-Hyun Choi, Hyeon-Gon Kim, Wan Seop Yu, Yeong-Beom Park, Kyoung Sik Ann Surg Treat Res Case Report Gigantomastia is a rare condition characterized by excessive breast growth. It has been reported that the majority of gigantomastia cases occur during either pregnancy or puberty. We were presented with a rare case of gigantomastia associated with neither pregnancy nor puberty, and successfully treated it with reduction mammaplasty and free nipple graft. This idiopathic gigantomastia is the very first case in Korea, and adds to the worldwide total of 9 reported cases. The Korean Surgical Society 2015-03 2015-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4347046/ /pubmed/25741497 http://dx.doi.org/10.4174/astr.2015.88.3.166 Text en Copyright © 2015, the Korean Surgical Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Annals of Surgical Treatment and Research is an Open Access Journal. All articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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