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Gynecomastia in Infants, Children, and Adolescents

2017· review· en· W2594550532 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueRecent Patents on Endocrine Metabolic & Immune Drug Discovery · 2017
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMale Breast Health Studies
Canadian institutionsAlberta Children's HospitalSouth Health CampusUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGynecomastiaBreast enlargementMedicinePathologicalTamoxifenMammoplastyEstrogenAndrogenPediatricsPhysiologyEndocrinologyInternal medicineBreast cancerPathologyHormoneCancer

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Gynecomastia may occur physiologically in the neonatal period, during puberty, and in old age. It may also develop in association with various pathologic states. The challenge for the physician is to distinguish physiological gynecomastia from those with an underlying pathology. OBJECTIVE: To review in depth the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and treatment of gynecomastia. METHOD: A PubMed search was completed in Clinical Queries using the key term "gynecomastia". Patents were searched using the key term "gynecomastia" from www.google.com/patents, www.uspto.gov, and www.freepatentsonline.com. RESULTS: Gynecomastia is caused by an imbalance between the stimulatory effect of estrogen and the inhibitory effect of androgen at the breast tissue level. Clinically, gynecomastia is characterized by the presence of a firm or rubbery, discrete, subareolar ridge of glandular tissue that is symmetrical in shape, freely movable, and nonadherent to skin or underlying tissue. Since most cases of physiological gynecomastia regress spontaneously with time, reassurance is all that is necessary. For pathological gynecomastia, treatment should be directed at the underlying cause, if possible. If gynecomastia persists in spite of the above measures, pharmacologic therapy and reduction mammoplasty may be considered. Recent patents related to the management of gynecomastia are discussed. CONCLUSION: The majority of cases are physiological and do not require treatment other than reassurance. For pathological cases, the underlying cause should be treated if possible. If gynecomastia persists in spite of the above measures and treatment becomes necessary, tamoxifen is the treatment of choice. Reduction mammoplasty may be considered for resistant cases.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.965
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0060.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.050
GPT teacher head0.362
Teacher spread0.311 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it