Presentation
Incidental finding on CT chest.
Patient Data
Age: 45-year-old
Gender: Female
From the case:
Gigantomastia
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Bilateral massive fatty breast enlargement.
Normal CT scan of the chest
Case Discussion
Gigantomastia (also known as macromastia or mammomegaly) is the term employed when there is massive breast enlargement.
It has been classified in to three types; type 1 is idiopathic and is related to the marked breast overgrowth in females with BMI >30 (type 1a) or BMI<30 (type 1b), type 2 is caused by the hormonal imbalance, related to the puberty (type 2a) or pregnancy (type 2b) and type 3 which is secondary to the drugs
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