Gynecomastia
Gynecomastia is the growth of the mammary gland in man. This can be caused by hormonal alterations of the patient, by disorders during .....
Gynecomastia is the growth of the mammary gland in man. This can be caused by hormonal alterations in the patient, by disorders during puberty development, by medical treatments that use hormones that cause breast growth, such as hormone therapy for prostate cancer.
Before the procedure, an adequate medical evaluation is important to determine what percentage is glandular and what is fat content.
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The treatment
The Gynecomastia procedure consists of removing the mammary gland that has grown normally and can also be combined or not with a lipo-modeling or liposuction procedure, because sometimes there are fatty components and components of mammary glandular tissue associated, that is why it is necessary to try both. The thin patient usually only has breast growth and is treated by resecting the mammary gland while the obese patient has a combination of two things: fat and breast growth.
Also in Gynecomastia you have to treat the skin when there is a lot of excess, and you have to do a procedure that also combines skin resection.
To summarize, the gynecomastia procedure may be associated with only the resection of the gland which is called subcutaneous mastectomy or it may be related to treating the gland and the fat where a liposuction is done which is usually done with ultrasound and after this the procedure is performed. mastectomy. And in a third case there are patients where the fat, gland and skin have to be removed, these cases are treated with liposuction, mastectomy and skin resection.