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[Rare clinical case of inflammatory macromastia in childhood].

AThe present and rare case is of a patient who developed macromastia in childhood. Usually, gigantomastia can occur as a complication due to pregnancy or it may occur in puberty, which is known as virginal breast hypertrophy, the second of which is more frequent. In our case, during the first decade of life, her breasts rapidly increased and reached gigantic sizes over a short period of time. The breasts were handing below the inguinal ligament and required a sling to support them. A phlegmon in the right axilla with a septic condition were the complications of this pathologic entity. The surgical intervention with postponed reconstruction was performed.

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