Gynaecomastia is enlarged male breast tissue, and surgery to reduce it is also known as male breast reduction surgery. Where the condition is established and surgery is appropriate, an operation can reduce the tissue. Like any operation, it carries risks. This page sets out the potential complications of the surgical
I developed this grading system for gynaecomastia after many years of assessing and operating on men with enlarged male breast tissue. My aim was practical. I wanted the grade to tell me the operation. In this system each grade corresponds directly to one operation, decided by what is in the
Gynaecomastia means enlarged male breast tissue. The surgery to remove excess tissue is sometimes called male breast reduction, or male breast reduction surgery. When surgeons talk about it, they usually describe it in grades, from mild through to severe. The grade is a shorthand for how much excess breast tissue
Gynaecomastia is enlarged male breast tissue. It is a recognised clinical condition with identifiable causes, and those causes matter more than most men expect when they first come to see me. Some causes settle without any treatment at all. Some are driven by a medication or an agent that is
BB grade 4 is a step in my own grading system for gynaecomastia. It is the point where the enlarged tissue has been dealt with, but the nipple still sits a little low and needs lifting. The crescent lift is the operation I use to raise it. In this article
Gynaecomastia is enlarged male breast tissue. The surgical correction of enlarged breasts in men, also known as male breast reduction surgery, is a surgical procedure I perform regularly. In some men the enlarged male breasts are mostly fatty tissue rather than firm glandular tissue, and the nipple has not dropped.
BB grade 1 gynaecomastia is the mildest presentation in my grading system. The enlarged tissue is glandular, it sits within the boundary of the areola, and there is little or no excess fat and no significant skin excess. In practice this is often the man who notices a firm, button-like
After major weight loss, the chest is often the area men find hardest to live with. The skin stretched over years of carrying extra weight, and once the weight is gone it frequently does not retract. What remains is loose skin, redundant folds, and in many men residual glandular tissue,
Written in 1946 by Dr. Jerome P. Webster, Mastectomy for Gynaecomastia Through a Semicircular Intra-Areolar Incision describes a forward-thinking surgical technique for treating gynaecomastia using a minimally invasive approach. First introduced in 1934, the Webster procedure holds particular historical significance as one of the first surgical approaches specifically designed to
According to an article, Classification and Management of Gynecomastia: Defining the Role of Ultrasound-Assisted Liposuction, written by Rod J. Rohrich, M.D., et al., medical management has had limited success for the treatment of gynaecomastia, with excisional surgical techniques becoming the accepted standard. However, with such important physical and psychological impacts and an