gigantomastia

Insurance companies also mandate a woman who is overweight, which is often the case with gigantomastia, to first lose a certain amount of weight.

The growth occurred during puberty making it a case of juvenile gigantomastia, but the patient did not seek treatment until the age of 29.

As a teen, Frye suffered from gigantomastia.

In boys, it can lead to gynecomastia, and in girls to precocious puberty and gigantomastia.

Hypertrophy of the breast (gigantomastia and macromastia)

Gigantomastia can occur as a rare complication of pregnancy, but also with the more frequently juvenile gigantomastia during puberty (virginal breast hypertrophy).

Some resources distinguish between macromastia, where excessive tissue is less than 2.5 kg, and gigantomastia, where excessive tissue is more than 2.5 kg.

When gigantomastia occurs in young women during puberty, the medical condition is known as juvenile macromastia or juvenile gigantomastia and sometimes as Virginal breast hypertrophy.

The treatment of macromastia and gigantomastia with the Lejour technique applies a vertical-incision, a superior pedicle, breast liposuction, and wide undermining of the skin of the lower portion of the breast.

Many definitions of macromastia and gigantomastia are based on the term of "excessive breast tissue", and are therefore somewhat arbitrary, as excessive tissue can often be regarded only from an aesthetic viewpoint and not from a medical one.

On October 29, 2009, the Philippine television network GMA News and Public Affairs, producers of Wish Ko Lang (Just My Wish) hosted by Vicky Morales, profiled the story of Pilma Cabrijas, a 30-year-old woman afflicted by gigantomastia.

There is a curious resemblance of the increased aromatase activity in chickens, to the aromatase excess syndrome in humans, a rather rare syndrome that can lead to gynecomastia in boys, and to precocious puberty and gigantomastia in girls, and which is also inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion.