The peculiar feature here is that the axillary breast started to enlarge only after mastectomy. The degree of enlargement was out of proportion to that expected, reaching approximately 995 grams, and required subsequent excision. We were not able to explain this phenomena. In conclusion, gigantomastia of pregnancy is a rare condition with ill-understood etiological factors. Shows the unusually enlarged breast.
Surgical treatment is indicated in complications and in incapacitating conditions.
We recommend total mastectomy with immediate implantation of the nipple-areola complex as the optimum surgical treatment. Macromastia in women and its surgical treatment, a clinical study based on 1064 cases. Palmuth T. Observations medicuarum centinae tres posthumae. Notes on a case of diffuse hypertrophy of the breasts. Never think you have seen everything.