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A case of gestational gigantomastia in a 37-years-old woman associated with elevated ANA: a casual linkage?

Hypertrophy of the breast (macromastia and gigantomastia) is a rare medical condition of the breast connective tissues. The etiology of this condition is still not clear; rarely, gigantomastia has been reported to develop in the setting of an autoimmune illness. We reported a case of a 37-years-old...

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Autores principales: Zingaretti, Nicola, De Biasio, Fabrizio, Riccio, Michele, Nardini, Nastassia, Mariuzzi, Laura, Parodi, Pier Camillo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5579424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28904695
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.27.167.11281
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author Zingaretti, Nicola
De Biasio, Fabrizio
Riccio, Michele
Nardini, Nastassia
Mariuzzi, Laura
Parodi, Pier Camillo
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description Hypertrophy of the breast (macromastia and gigantomastia) is a rare medical condition of the breast connective tissues. The etiology of this condition is still not clear; rarely, gigantomastia has been reported to develop in the setting of an autoimmune illness. We reported a case of a 37-years-old woman with undifferentiated connective tissue disease of 2-years duration presented with enlargement of breasts. The breast enlargment started at 5 months of gestation. She successfully underwent reduction mammoplasty with free nipple graft. In the succeeding months the level of antinuclear ANA remained stable. It is uncertain whether a positive antinuclear antibodies in gigantomastia is a casuative agent or an effect.
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spelling pubmed-55794242017-09-13 A case of gestational gigantomastia in a 37-years-old woman associated with elevated ANA: a casual linkage? Zingaretti, Nicola De Biasio, Fabrizio Riccio, Michele Nardini, Nastassia Mariuzzi, Laura Parodi, Pier Camillo Pan Afr Med J Case Report Hypertrophy of the breast (macromastia and gigantomastia) is a rare medical condition of the breast connective tissues. The etiology of this condition is still not clear; rarely, gigantomastia has been reported to develop in the setting of an autoimmune illness. We reported a case of a 37-years-old woman with undifferentiated connective tissue disease of 2-years duration presented with enlargement of breasts. The breast enlargment started at 5 months of gestation. She successfully underwent reduction mammoplasty with free nipple graft. In the succeeding months the level of antinuclear ANA remained stable. It is uncertain whether a positive antinuclear antibodies in gigantomastia is a casuative agent or an effect. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5579424/ /pubmed/28904695 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.27.167.11281 Text en © Nicola Zingaretti et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Zingaretti, Nicola
De Biasio, Fabrizio
Riccio, Michele
Nardini, Nastassia
Mariuzzi, Laura
Parodi, Pier Camillo
A case of gestational gigantomastia in a 37-years-old woman associated with elevated ANA: a casual linkage?
title A case of gestational gigantomastia in a 37-years-old woman associated with elevated ANA: a casual linkage?
title_full A case of gestational gigantomastia in a 37-years-old woman associated with elevated ANA: a casual linkage?
title_fullStr A case of gestational gigantomastia in a 37-years-old woman associated with elevated ANA: a casual linkage?
title_full_unstemmed A case of gestational gigantomastia in a 37-years-old woman associated with elevated ANA: a casual linkage?
title_short A case of gestational gigantomastia in a 37-years-old woman associated with elevated ANA: a casual linkage?
title_sort case of gestational gigantomastia in a 37-years-old woman associated with elevated ana: a casual linkage?
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5579424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28904695
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.27.167.11281
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