We describe the case of a 24-year-old hemophilic man who had been a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive for the past 22 years and presented to our hospital with bilateral breast enlargement with the presence of microcalcifications. Etiology of breast enlargement in male HIV population and differential diagnosis between true gynecomastia and lipomastia are also discussed.

An unusual combination of congenital malformations in a 16-year-old emotionally disturbed man is described. The anomalies included severe congenital bilateral leg lymphedema, bilateral gynecomastia, unilateral cataract, and malformed external genitalia. Genetic and hormonal investigations were unremarkable. Multiple concomitant operations (vascular and plastic surgeons) to correct the deformiti...

When a patient developed side effects after taking TCM, instead of incriminating the whole herb as toxic, it is more important to know how the drug was prepared and what exactly the patient had taken. Physicians should know that the whole herb prepared in the traditional way such as decoction is entirely different from patent herbal medicine prepared by modern pharmaceutical method. There are m...

We present the case of a 50-year-old male with bilateral gynecomastia who was incidentally found to have 0.8-cm subareolar mass on computed tomography. Mammographic and sonographic characteristics of the lesion are described as well as a brief historical review of myofibroblastoma, a rare mesenchymal tumor.

sive use, none of the nucleoside analogues used to treat our patients if gynecomastia is another feature of the syndrome of HIV-1 prote(zidovudine, lamivudine, or stavudine) have been associated with ase inhibitor–associated peripheral lipodystrophy. gynecomastia, whereas indinavir has already been described as a cause of breast enlargement in women. One of the patients we Juan-Pablo Caeiro, Fe...