What is Gynecomastia?
Gynecomastia is an endocrine system condition in which there’s a hormonal imbalance in male’s testosterone and estrogen. This hormonal condition causes the enlargement of the breasts in males, which is not cancerous. This hormonal imbalance refers to the higher level of estrogen hormone in males.
Gynecomastia is common among males who belong in the neonatal, puberty, and late adult stage. Gynecomastia goes away by itself after few months or a year for males who are in the stage of neonatal or puberty. Aside from these natural causes, gynecomastia can also be caused by the use of drugs or other more serious medical conditions.
This medical condition is not very serious, unless it is severe. However, gynecomastia causes problems on the psychological and emotional part of those who suffer from it. Men, who are suffering from gynecomastia, are embarrassed to take off their clothes on public pools and situations like those because of the fear of being ridiculed.
How Gynecomastia is Diagnosed?
A man who is suffering from gynecomastia can suspect and feel the signs and symptoms of the disorder by himself. The most common signs of gynecomastia are the enlargement and the tenderness of the breast, and no man wants his breasts to look like female’s. However, before taking medications and other procedures, it is advisable to ask for help from doctors.
Gynecomastia can affect one or both breasts. Aside from the physical signs and symptoms of it, there are other medical apparatuses that are used to detect gynecomastia, like the way does the ultrasound, mammogram, radiology used to detect gynecomastia.
What does the ultrasound, mammogram and radiology used to detect gynecomastia?
Radiology refers to the field of medicine that specializes in imaging techniques that are used to treat and to diagnose different kinds of diseases within the body. Some of these techniques are x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, mammogram, computer tomography, and a lot more.
Those people who are accredited to practice this field are called radiologists. Radiologists are doctors who graduated from medical schools who have the right to diagnose and give prescription drugs.
Radiology, through the use of imaging techniques, can provide images of the internal parts of the body. This has become possible through radiation or sound waves.
How does the ultrasound, mammogram and radiology used to detect gynecomastia?
Radiology is a broad field of medicine that refers to the various imaging techniques. Radiology can help to verify the diagnosis of gynecomastia. The imaging techniques used are mammogram or mammography and ultrasound or the breast ultrasound.
Mammography is commonly used by male and females for the detection of breast cancer. This, however, can be used to detect and to verify the diagnosis of gynecomastia.
The breast image of a man with gynecomastia, which is produced through mammography, appears to be flame-shaped, dense and nodular, dendritic or diffused in pattern, depending on the severity.
The breast ultrasound can provide images of the internal parts of the body, through sound waves. The breast ultrasound is also used for a deeper diagnosis of gynecomastia. The breast image of a man with gynecomastia may appear triangular, disc-shaped or star-shaped, depending on the severity.
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