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This is a 38y.o. male 5′ 11″ and 190lb who underwent male breast reductions surgery for adolescent gynecomastia. He is seen 3 months after surgery.
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This 37-year-old man is 6′ and 186lbs. He developed gynecomastia during puberty, and prior to surgery would never expose his chest in public. Before undergoing surgery, he chose to have a mammogram and ultrasound of his chest, the results of which showed no signs of glandular tissue. This absence of glandular tissue is a sign of pseudogynecomastia, a less severe subcategory of the condition. However, I rarely do liposuction alone because it is difficult to get a smooth outcome, for this reason I opened.
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This patient is a 32-year-old male who presents with bilateral adolescent gynecomastia with skin laxity. This patient underwent male breast reduction surgery with gland excision and suction-assisted lipectomy. As a result, the skin has contracted very well. The photos are seen two months after surgery.
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Fremont, California: This is a 34-year-old male who presents with minimal gynecomastia and presents for gynecomastia breast gland excision and liposuction for gynecomastia. His chest enlargement started at about 10 years old and has remained about the same for all these years. He understands that his gynecomastia is minimal but would like to have a flatter chest with no puffy nipples. He is 5’10” and weighs 170 pounds. He underwent gynecomastia breast gland excision and liposuction of his chest. He had 21 grams removed from his right chest and 200 cc of fat removed from his right chest. His left chest 12 grams of tissue removed and 200 cc of fat removed. His surgery was in Marin County California at Marin Cosmetic Surgery Center in Novato, California. His pictures are taken 3 months after surgery. Dr. Miguel A. Delgado is a gynecomastia expert that treats patients from all over the country and throughout the world. He has produced many documentaries regarding gynecomastia that have become very popular on YouTube -http://www.youtube.com/user/migueldelgadomd1/videos . His gynecomastia practice is centered in the California area and treats many patients from the San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, and San Jose areas in addition to states such as Nevada and Oregon. His practice consists of many revision gynecomastia patients, which is a testament to his gynecomastia skill and experience.
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Oakland, California – This is a 39 year old male who presents to the San Francisco office for evaluation of his adolescent gynecomastia. He has been on Propecia for approximately 7 years but over that time frame, he has noted no increase in his breast size. He does not take off his shirt in public. His goal is to eliminate the extra breast tissue. He is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 155 pounds. His surgery was performed at Marin Cosmetic Surgery Center in Novato, California. He had 29 grams of breast tissue removed from his right chest and 26 grams of breast tissue removed from his left chest. He also had 225 cc. of fat and aspirate removed from each side of his chest. His post op recovery was complicated by a post op hematoma that was seen in the recovery room. He went back to surgery for evacuation of the hematoma. Otherwise his post op recovery was uncomplicated. His photographs are seen approximately four months after surgery.
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This 33-year-old man is 5’10” and 250lbs. He developed adolescent gynecomastia and never was able to expose his chest due to severe discomfort. He underwent glandular excision as well as ultrasonic liposuction of the abdomen, flanks and axillae, from which I extracted a total of approximately 8000cc of fat. His goal was “to feel comfortable in a T-shirt.”
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Crowley, Texas – This is a 29 year old male, 5 feet 8 inches, 180 pounds from Crowley, Texas who presents to the San Francisco, California office for evaluation and treatment of his steroid induced gynecomastia. His examination shows that gland excision and suction assisted lipectomy of his chest as well as liposuction of his axilla will give him the best outcome. He underwent this gynecomastia surgery at Marin Cosmetic Surgery Center in Novato, California. He underwent 176 grams excision from his right chest and 99 grams excision from his left chest. He had an uneventful post operative course and his photographs are seen about four months after surgery. His case was steroid induced gynecomastia and he had some healing issues of the nipple-areola complex.
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This 23-year-old man suffers from adolescent gynecomastia. He underwent glandular excision and ultrasonic liposuction, from which I removed a total of 205cc of fat from the right side of the chest and 200cc from the left. His goal was to “improve my chest, so I can be proud and not ashamed of it”.
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This 19-year-old young man stands at 5’11”, 230lbs, with normal endocrine levels. He never takes off his shirt in front of others, and wears an elastic strap around his chest to reduce the visibility of his gynecomastia. Note the discoloration around the central chest area. He underwent glandular excision and suction-assisted lipectomy of the chest, resulting in a total fat extraction of 600cc from the left side and 625cc from the right. Total glandular tissue removed was 100 grams from the left side of the chest and 90 grams from the right.
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Santa Cruz, California – This is a 53 year old male who presents with adolescent gynecomastia and presents for gland excision and suction assisted lipectomy. He is 6 feet 1 inch and weighs 200 pounds. His gynecomastia surgery was performed at Marin Cosmetic Surgery Center. He had 21 grams of breast tissue removed from his right chest and 22 grams of breast tissue removed from his left chest. In addition he had approximately 300 cc. of fat and aspirate removed from his chest. His post op recovery was uneventful. His photographs were taken at 3 months after surgery.
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This is an 18 y.o. male 5’5 ” and 135 lb who underwent male breast reduction surgery for adolescent gynecomastia. He is seen 2 months after surgery.
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Davis, California – This is an 18 year old male who presents with adolescent gynecomastia. His course had been complicated by him taking testosterone in the past for body building. He states that his chest did not change after taking the steroids. His goal is to have a flat chest and to have a minimal amount of scarring. He elected to do a pull-through procedure for his gynecomastia surgery which is a minimally invasive technique. He is 6 feet, 195 pounds. He underwent gland excision and liposuction at Marin Cosmetic Surgery Center in Marin County, California. He had 10 grams of breast tissue removed from his right chest and 9 grams of breast tissue removed from his left chest. He had less than 100 cc. of fat removed from each side of his chest. He had a very small incision for the pull-through procedure. His post op course was uneventful. His photographs are seen at 2 months after surgery.
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Elk Grove, California – This is a 36 year old male who presents with adolescent gynecomastia and presents to the Novato, California office for evaluation. He had an approximately 40 pound weight loss and his goal is to have smaller nipples and reduced fat in his chest. He is 5 feet 6 inches, 166 pounds. He had approximately 29 grams of breast tissue removed from his right chest and 42 grams of breast tissue removed from his left chest. He also had approximately 400 cc. of fat and aspirate removed from both his right and left chest. His surgery was performed at Marin Cosmetic Surgery Center in Novato, California. He had an uneventful post op course. His photographs were taken approximately two months after surgery.
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This 47-year-old man has had severe gynecomastia since he was 17. Prior to surgery, he never took off his shirt in public due to the appearance of his chest. Due to the severity of his case, he was advised at the consultation that a secondary procedure would be required. He may undergo this in the future.
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This is a 36-year-old male from Vacaville, California, who developed adolescent gynecomastia and was also possibly enhanced by steroid usage for body building. He had gynecomastia surgery in 2001 and 2009. He presents to my office in San Francisco, California, for evaluation and treatment for revision gynecomastia surgery. He underwent gland excision and liposuction at Marin Cosmetic Surgery Center in which he had 8 grams of tissue removed from his right and 5 grams of tissue removed from his left side. His postoperative photographs are seen at three months after surgery.
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Makkah Saudi Arabia – This is a 21 year old medical student who presents with adolescent gynecomastia and presents for gland excision and suction assisted lipectomy. He is 173 cm. and 90 kilograms. His surgery was performed at Marin Cosmetic Surgery Center in Novato, California. He had 108 grams of breast tissue removed from his right chest and 98 grams of breast tissue removed from his left chest. In addition he had 500 cc. of fat and aspirate removed from each side of his chest. His post operative course was uneventful. His photographs are taken approximately one year after surgery.
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This 40 year old male complained about wanting to feel more comfortable going shirtless in public. His pseudo-gynecomastia developed later in life due to weight gain. He had suction assisted liposuction with glandular excision. In cases like this, Dr. Delgado tends to excise the heavier fiber-fatty tissue to get a better, more appealing contour.
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HISTORY: This is a 33-year-old resident of Santa Rosa, California who presents to the Novato office in Marin County, California for evaluation of his gynecomastia. He has a severe Tanner III to Tanner IV gynecomastia. He complains of having very large pendulous breast that have gotten worse over the years. He weighs approximately 230 pounds and his chest has become quite large. He presents with adolescent gynecomastia. He never takes off his shirt due to the severity and embarrassment of his chest. His goal is to be able to wear a t-shirt. He underwent gland excision and suction assisted lipectomy with liposuction of the axilla. We extracted 400 cc from each chest and about 600 cc from the axilla or armpit. His surgery was performed at Marin Cosmetic Surgery Center in Marin County, California. He had 108 grams of tissue removed from his right side and 97 grams of breast tissue removed from his left. His photographs were taken 4 months after surgery.
Please be respectful of the men and their pictures posted here. It took a great deal of courage for them to take these pictures, let alone have them posted for the world to see. We are grateful to them and believe that it is a gift to the thousands of men that think they are the only one with this condition. Thank you
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