Abstract
Congenital breast malformations have an incidence between 2 and 6 % with its range in severity from the relatively minor to major chest wall deformities. Throughout the breast’s development and evolution, alterations often appear due to volume excess (hypertrophies) or absence of volume (atrophy, hypotrophy), unequal development (asymmetries), or malformations (tuberous breasts).
The tuberous breast syndrome is a rare anomaly of breast shape, which can be associated to volume breast asymmetry affecting young women bilaterally or unilaterally. The author describes normal breast development and relates it to the tubular breast appearance in its different stages and clinical variants. Classifications are discussed. Significant clinical cases for each type are presented.
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Mugea, T.T., Ifrim, M. (2015). Tubular Breast Deformity: New Analysis and Classification. In: Mugea, T.T., Shiffman, M.A. (eds) Aesthetic Surgery of the Breast. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43407-9_49
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