Breast masses in young girls. Report of five cases.

The pubertal breast may be the seat of lesions comparable to those of the adult female breast. Of the five girls referred to in this report, aged 11 to 15 years, three had fibrocystic disease, one had a huge intracystic papilloma and the last one had multiple papillomas. The two girls with fibrocystic disease and the one girl with multiple papillomas had a family history of breast cancer which had appeared in their grandmothers. The possible relationship between the breast diseases of the two generations is discussed.