{"id":20,"date":"2013-09-15T07:42:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T07:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2013-09-15T07:50:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T07:50:20","slug":"gynecomastia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/gynecomastia\/","title":{"rendered":"Gynecomastia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Gynecomastia of the male breast<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Gynecomastia is the benign hypertrophy of the male breast<\/li>\n<li>asymptomatic or painful<\/li>\n<li>unilateral or bilateral<\/li>\n<li>just below the areolar region<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Age distribution<\/h3>\n<p>3 peaks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>transiently during neonatal period due to motherly estrogrens<\/li>\n<li>puberty<\/li>\n<li>adulthood<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Causes of Gynecomastia<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Illicit drug use, especially marijuana<\/li>\n<li>Renal, Liver disease<\/li>\n<li>Neoplasms<\/li>\n<li>Hyperparathyroidism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Gynecomastia&#8217;s association with cancer<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Testicular cancer<\/li>\n<li>BRCA2 genetic multation may lead to male breast cancer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Diagnostics for Gynecomastia<\/h3>\n<p>For the older patient with no obvious etiology consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LFT<\/li>\n<li>BUN<\/li>\n<li>Creatinine<\/li>\n<li>Thyroid hormone<\/li>\n<li>Prolactin level<\/li>\n<li>FSAH, LH, DHEA<\/li>\n<li>Testosterone<\/li>\n<li>Bilateral mammorgram<\/li>\n<li>FNA (fine needle aspiration) can be diagnostic or core needle biopsy, <strong><em>usually not a need for excisional biopsy. \u00a0Thus an excisional biopsy wouldn&#8217;t be a first line diagnostic tool in gynecomastia.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gynecomastia of the male breast Gynecomastia is the benign hypertrophy of the male breast asymptomatic or painful unilateral or bilateral just below the areolar region Age distribution 3 peaks transiently during neonatal period due to motherly estrogrens puberty adulthood Causes of Gynecomastia Illicit drug use, especially marijuana Renal, Liver disease Neoplasms Hyperparathyroidism Gynecomastia&#8217;s association with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/gynecomastia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gynecomastia<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,18,41],"tags":[43,28],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brca2","category-breast-disease","category-gynecomastia","tag-core-biopsy","tag-fine-needle-aspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}