"Gestational gigantomastia": A review article and case presentation of a new surgical management option

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 94-101

  Shoma, Ashraf ^a   Elbassiony, Loai ^a   Amin, Mahmoud ^a   Zalata, Khaled ^a   Megahed, Nirmeen ^a   Elkhiary, Mostafa ^a   Abdelhafez, Hosam ^a   Abdelaal, Ibrahim ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

gestational gigantomastia; subcutaneous mastectomy

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; BROMOCRIPTINE; CD20 ANTIGEN; CD34 ANTIGEN; DIURETIC AGENT; ESTRADIOL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BED REST; BREAST; BREAST AREOLA; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST HYPERPLASIA; BREAST REDUCTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EPITHELIOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FREE NIPPLE AREOLA COMPLEX GRAFTING; GESTATIONAL GIGANTOMASTIA; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MASTECTOMY; MEMORY CELL; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PREGNANCY; RECURRENCE RISK; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN ULCER; SUBCUTANEOUS MASTECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

BREAST; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, SUBCUTANEOUS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952970612     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1553350610391106     Document Type: Article

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