Functioning adrenocortical carcinomas are rare diseases with dismal prognosis. A 41-year-old man presenting with gynecomastia had a giant feminizing adrenocortical carcinoma at stage IV. Although surgical resection was controversial, we removed the primary tumor to reduce the mass effects. He lived for 12 months with an acceptable quality of life. Gynecomastia may be the first sign of feminizin...

Gynecomastia is responsible for a significant amount of emotional and psychological trauma especially in the young population. The treatment of gynecomastia has continued to evolve over the ages and today needs to be designed specifically to address the amount of skin excess, glandular breast tissue, adipose tissue, degree of breast ptosis, and the size of the nipple areolar complex (NAC). Each...

CYP19A1 Aromatase excess syndrome is characterized by pre- or peripubertal onset of gynecomastia due to estrogen excess because of a gain-of-function mutation in the aromatase gene (CYP19A1). Subchromosomal recombination events including duplication, deletion, and inversion has been identified. The latter two recombinations recruit novel promoters for CYP19A1 through a unique mechanism. Gynecom...

Multiple Schwannomas in a Patient with Gynecomastia" (2016).

Dear Editor: Pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia (PASH) and stromal multinucleated giant cells (MGC) can occur in both female and male breast (1-5). In males, simultaneous occurrence of PASH and MGC in gynecomastia was described in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1) (6-8). However, the specificity of this finding for NF-1 still remains unclear because the number of described cases ...

BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer susceptibility genes are responsible for most of the hereditary breast cancers. No or very few sporadic breast tumors have been shown to harbor mutations in the coding sequence of BRCA1 or BRCA2. In contrast to normal breast epithelial cells, BRCA1 mRNA levels in tumors appeared to be down-regulated by methylation, while BRCA2 showed significant overexpression in s...

Pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia (PASH) is a benign lesion often observed in parts of the mammary stroma in a variety of breast diseases. It is characterized by stromal myofibroblastic proliferation that possesses irregularly anastomosing slit-like pseudovascular spaces lined by a layer of spindle cells. PASH commonly occurs in premenopausal women; however, it has also been observed in men...

BACKGROUND Gynecomastia is a common condition affecting many adolescent and adult males. Surgical techniques utilizing a variety of incisions, excisions, suction-assisted lipectomy, ultrasound-assisted liposuction, power-assisted liposuction, or some combination of these methods have been used in the treatment of gynecomastia. This article describes the authors' method of using power-assisted l...