Agalactorrhoea following reductive mastoplasty: a case of permanent impairment evaluation

A woman of fertile age who had been suffering from agalactorrhoea since undergoing reductive mastoplasty was referred to us for forensic evaluation. As the impairment rating criteria listed within the main Italian assessment guidelines did not provide us with any helpful clues, we turned our attention to a selection of French, Spanish and Portuguese rating tables either legally binding or merely indicative in nature, to the bare`me (table) formulated by the CEREDOC (Confederation Europeenne d’Experts en evaluation et Reparation du Dommage Corporel) and to the American Medical Association guidelines, the only ones contemplating rating criteria specific for agalactorrhoea with an impairment score range of 0–5 percentage points. In light of the woman’s young age and in subsequent consideration of the implications agalactorrhoea typically has both for nursing mothers and for their newborn babies, we estimated her physical impairment at five percentage points.