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Revista Archivo Médico de Camagüey
On-line version ISSN 1025-0255
Abstract
GONZALEZ GARCIA, Maité; GARCIA VEGA, Ricardo; DE CESPEDES SARDAIN, Virgilio and BANGO DE VARONA, María Josefa. Evolutive anthropometric study of breasts in young people among 11 and 16 years -old in Camagüey. AMC [online]. 2000, vol.4, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1025-0255.
A study of 130 young people of 11 and 16 years old was performed . Anthropemetric measures of breast were carried out using patterns proposed by David J. Smith, modified by García R. There measures of breasts were performed to each girl within a period of years; and their evolution was compared using the statistic rogramming package"MICROSTAT". It was evident that group as general mean breasts transformed from an initial cronical form to an spherical one with marked axillary prolongation and deviation of complexes aerola-nipple outwards and downwards.
Keywords : BREAST; ANTHROPOMETRY.