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ea0065p238 | Metabolism and Obesity | SFEBES2019

Idiopathic gigantomastia: newer mechanistic insights implicating the paracrine milieu

Das Liza , Dutta Pinaki , Rai Ashutosh , Bhansali Anil , Tripathy Satyaswarup , Vaiphei Kim , Garg Akhil , Mohsina Subair

Objective: The primary objective was to characterise the paracrine milieu in three subjects with apparently idiopathic gigantomastia and to study the relative expression of implicated factors in these pathological specimens as compared to tissue samples from normal breast, gynecomastia and breast cancer.Background: Gigantomastia refers to pathological breast enlargement usually occurring in the peripubertal or peripartum period. Idiopathic gigantomastia,...