Puffy Nipples in Men with Gynecomastia - Plastic Surgery
This male patient wanted a profile that was more male and did not like his puffy nipple breast contour.
23 year old male
5 feet 10inches tall weighing 165 pounds
Surgery location: Hospital Operating Room
Anesthesia: Tumescent Local with Sedation
Method: Dynamic technique, excision mass, liposuction contouring, deep tissue sculpture, and excision small ellipse of skin at incision site.
Puffy nipples, although a common patient description of this problem, is not an accurate. The area swollen includes the nipples, areola, and surrounding region. In this male patient, the swelling was diffuse through the chest.
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Photos of puffy nipples from gynecomastia before breast reduction in men. |
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Photos 6 weeks after gynecomastia male breast reduction surgery for puffy nipples. |
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Photos of puffy nipples from gynecomastia before breast reduction in men. |
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Photos 6 weeks after gynecomastia male breast reduction surgery for puffy nipples. |
The stretched skin of the breast and nipple / areola region often shrinks quickly after gynecomastia chest sculpture. Dr. Bermant sometimes sculpts the redundant areola skin by removing a small ellipse of extra tissue at the time of surgery. This excision of skin is within the approximately 2 cm original incision and tends to flatten the puffy nipple at the time of surgery.
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Left Photos of puffy nipples from gynecomastia before breast reduction in men. Right Photos 6 weeks after gynecomastia male breast reduction surgery for puffy nipples. |
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Left Photos of puffy nipples from gynecomastia before breast reduction in men. Right Photos 6 weeks after gynecomastia male breast reduction surgery for puffy nipples. |
"Puffy Nipples" can be caused by a mass pushing the skin away from the chest muscles. Protrusion can be so severe that the areola is actually stretched. This patient's mass was almost all gland.
- Right Breast 2.5 x 2.3 x 1 cm gland and 200 cc surrounding fat
- Left Breast 2 x 1 x 0.5 cm gland and 150 cc surrounding fat
Areola shrink when not stretched by a mass of fat and gland.
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For this patient, most of the puffy nipple problem was from the chest wall fat and not from these small glandular masses. Each mass was very firm and contained minimal fat. |
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Photos of contour map surgical plan to treat puffy nipples and areola from gynecomastia. The inner circle was the gland region. The outer circle marked the localized extra fat. |
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