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Unilateral breast enlargement in association with congestive heart failure
C Ezeugwu1, U Gidwani, J Oropello
1Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029-8867, USA.
New Jersey Medicine : the Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey
|June 1, 1995
Abstract:
The authors describe unilateral breast enlargement and congestive heart failure. Two patients responded to diuretic therapy with complete resolution of breast enlargement. An impairment in venous drainage through the azygous, axillary, and thoracic veins may explain this phenomenon.