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Lobar Ultrasonography in the Diagnosis of the Benign and Malignant Lesions of the Male Breast

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This chapter describes and illustrates a new approach of the diagnosis of the male breast, with distinction between the physiological and pathological gynecomastia, pseudo-gynecomastia, and male breast cancer. The anatomical Ultrasonography (US) scanning and interpreting using the radial and antiradial technique offers the possibility to understand the development of the lobar architecture of the male breast similar to the first stages of development of the female breast. The use of Doppler and of the sonoelastography (SE) as complementary techniques realizes a new concept of the Full Breast US (FBU), which allows a better differential diagnosis and may reduce both unnecessary biopsies and the cost of additional techniques of radiological and imaging diagnosis.

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    Aristida Colan-Georges M.D., Ph.D.

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Colan-Georges, A. (2018). Lobar Ultrasonography in the Diagnosis of the Benign and Malignant Lesions of the Male Breast. In: Amy, D. (eds) Lobar Approach to Breast Ultrasound. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61681-0_9

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