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So 45 year old male presenting with

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alum. What's the first best imaging test

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for a 45 year old male?

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Start with an ultrasound mammogram MRI or

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none of the above.

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Men by definition are usually a diag.

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Good. So most of you said mammogram and for

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men actually 25 is the age

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that cut off that you're going to go from ultrasound. I'm from start with

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a mammo. So under 25, you're gonna start with an ultrasound

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over 25. You're going to start with a mammogram.

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And usually the mammogram is diagnostic.

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When we're talking about gynecomastia, the

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mammogram is usually diagnostic. We may not need an ultrasound.

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In this case though. You can

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see this palpable lump.

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That's when you take a minute. Look at this image.

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I'm sorry if it means to advance. So

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the question to you is this classic

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gynego? Massia or doesn't mean more more imaging?

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things to yourself for a minute

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So what's the next step? Is that a no further Imaging this

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is gynecomastia, you need to do an ultrasound to confirm

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gynecomastia or do an ultrasound because of findings

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are currently suspicious for male breast cancer.

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Good. Yeah, so, you know, this is suspicious. It's a mass gynecomastia

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is not a method to not have convex borders.

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It's flame shaped. It's right behind the nipple.

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Does not cause nipple retraction like they

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did in this case.

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So yes, this is suspicious. Sorry go in

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a minute.

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Yeah, so suspicious for breast.

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Cancer so you could see if you do an ultrasound

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like if you were on the fence and you wanted to do an ultrasound or the

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patient's doctor wanted it. You could see that this is not

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a flame shaped retro or density. This isn't

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a regular hypocalic mass. And the retailer region. He has another

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lesion here to a clock you can see that these are separated by

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two point three centimeters and he's got it a normal

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lymph node.

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So by Reds here, thank you

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all know the answer by now.

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Okay gonna give you a second. Yep. So this is

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the Byron's four very good. You're getting the hang of it now.

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Um, so just to kind of talk about male breast

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cancer gynecomastia is usually bilateral could be

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a it's usually asymmetric though, but it both sides are

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usually affected one side more than the other. It's going to

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be a sub-areolar flame shape density mammals, usually

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diagnostic ultrasound can actually be pretty confusing.

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So if it looks like gynecomastia on the mammogram, there

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may not be a need to do an ultrasound. It's supposed

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to breast cancer. It's going to be usually unilateral

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though. The other side might have gynecomastia which

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we see often. It's going to be a mass with

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border. So if it's if it's if it looks like a mass it needs to

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be by at seed, um, ultrasound necessary if in

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mammo is not classic for a gynecomastia.

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Um when you talk about gynecomastia, there's a few common causes.

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It's usually there's no identifiable cause

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idiopathic drugs commonly. We talk

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about marijuana or digitalis prostate cancer

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meds anything that that causes a patient have

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increased estrogen like if they take if they

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take estrogen for for gender

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differences or

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liver disease or if they have testicular adrenal tumor

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also male breast cancer. Sometimes just

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the hormone levels can cause gynecomastia in the

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other breasts.

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Nail breast cancer accounts for one percent of

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all breast cancers. It's invasive Dussel men

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don't have lobular. So they don't get invasive lobular. It's usually

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a worse prognosis. They typically don't get benign masses

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like fibrinomas or CIS. So unless it's

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you know, and if there's a math it probably needs to

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buy it be

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Faculty

Robyn G Roth, MD

Women's Imaging Fellowship Director, Assistant Professor of Radiology

Cooper University Hospital

Tags

Ultrasound

Oncologic Imaging

Mammography

Male

Breast