title: The surgical approach to gynaecomastia.
abstract: The main reason patients seek treatment for gynaecomastia is the marked embarrassment this condition causes. The extra-areolar incisions in the surgical treatment may give obvious and hypertrophic scars as embarrassing as the original benign disease. The recommended semi-circular intra-areolar incision to be used to achieve the aims of treatment in this condition--a normal male contour with an imperceptible scar--is described. Four cases are shown comparing the results of surgical treatment using different incisions.
mesh_terms: D002921:Cicatrix / Q000473:pathology; D004954:Esthetics; D006177:Gynecomastia / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013518:Surgery, Plastic