Virginal breast hypertrophy 2307536 218311988 2008-06-10T01:58:40Z 68.89.166.137 '''Virginal breast hypertrophy''' (VBH) is not a medical name, but the more known name for ''juvenile macromastia'' and ''juvenile [[gigantomastia]]''. It causes excessive growth of the [[breasts]] during [[puberty]] and has a much higher frequency than the rare cases of breast hypertrophy in pregnancy. VBH normally starts when puberty starts, soon after the girl's first [[menstrual period]], but some doctors suggest that breast development ([[thelarche]]) occurs before menstrual onset ([[menarche]]).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.obgyn.net/yw/yw.asp?page=/yw/puberty_QnA | title=Puberty Stages of Development | work=Ask the Expert FAQs | publisher=OBGYN.net | accessdate=2006-11-21}}</ref> The breast growth sometimes is not constant and comes in "growth spurts". At times, women may have minimal or no breast growth and then experience a growth spurt where the breasts grow very rapidly in a short space of time. These growth spurts cause great physical discomfort, the main symptoms being red, itchy skin and sometimes a general ache in the breasts. But in [[puberty]] the breasts can also continuously grow at an even pace for the space of several years. This process can overdevelop a completely normal and healthy breast, sometimes to gigantic extents. With VBH, enlargement of the [[nipples]] usually also occurs, and the nipples can grow to an enormous size. In very severe cases of VBH, [[Clitoral hypertrophy|hypertrophy of the clitoris]] can also occur. == Notes == <div class="references-small"><references/></div> ==External links== *[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8614890&dopt=Abstract Massive asymmetric virginal breast hypertrophy] *[http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/wiley031/00066252.pdf U.S.A. Library of Congress - Healthy Breasts: A Primer] *[http://books.google.com/books?id=avOD0yFh024C&pg=PA102&dq=%22hypertrophy+of+the+breasts%22+abnormal Google books - The Breast: Its Anomalies, Its Diseases, and Their Treatment] *[http://books.google.com/books?id=sgzA3opK1D8C&pg=PA753&dq=hypertrophy+of+the+breast&sig=uLjMYxv0LHS674lElI-uab0DzzI#PPA754,M1 Google books - Rhinoplasty and Facial Plastic Surgery with a Supplement on Mammaplasty and Other Operations in ...] *[http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1399262 A case of massive hypertrophy of the breasts] *[http://books.google.com/books?id=juwIAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA759&lpg=RA1-PA759&dq=durston+%2264+pounds%22&source=web&ots=4VLCkiLRnv&sig=vkTgPPvXejplStu_tOszOnnbHqQ#PRA1-PA760,M1 Google books - Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an Encyclopedic Collection of Rare and ...] *[http://books.google.com/books?id=6MPso2LRx20C&pg=PA234&lpg=PA234&dq=%22diffuse+hypertrophy+of+the+breast%22&source=web&ots=IQwnM85R_7&sig=GE5SQJak2uQaNQdp2x4_xjaI8Ps#PPA235,M1 Google books - The International text-book of surgery v.2] *[http://books.google.com/books?id=xzBwgYe0yC8C&pg=RA13-PA693&dq=%22hypertrophy+of+the+breast%22+fig.#PRA13-PA694,M1 Google books - The Science and art of surgery v.1] *[http://books.google.com/books?id=4762tNIkDBcC&pg=PA147&dq=%22hypertrophy+of+the+breast%22+fig. Google books - Surgical diagnosis and treatment Index, 1922] {{human-repro-stub}} [[Category:Breast]] [[Category:Sexual anatomy]] [[es:Hipertrofia virginal de los senos]] [[ja:思春期乳腺肥大症]]