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What Does A Swollen Mass In Chest Indicate?
Question: I am XXXXXXX XXXXXXX 43 years male.i'm suffering from:
1.hypertension for past 8 years,taking sartel-40,nexovas-5 and rosuvas-5
2.neurofibroma since 2001
3.psoriasis since 2013,using topical seroid cream and ketoconazole shampoo.
for past 3 days i notice a swelling mass in post anterior left chest wall.my G.P. has checked it and said soft ,palpable limph node and prescribed antibiotic.
i have consulted one oncologist.he physically checked it and said it does not appears as carcinoma.he has written in prescription "soft and firm(but not hard lump) mass".He has suggested one antibiotic cream i.e. T-Bact for 5days.
under these circumstances,i want your views regarding -
1)what it is?
2)what to do?
I was suffered from chicken pox in the month of march,this year and taken Zovirax-800 five times aday for 7 days.
1.hypertension for past 8 years,taking sartel-40,nexovas-5 and rosuvas-5
2.neurofibroma since 2001
3.psoriasis since 2013,using topical seroid cream and ketoconazole shampoo.
for past 3 days i notice a swelling mass in post anterior left chest wall.my G.P. has checked it and said soft ,palpable limph node and prescribed antibiotic.
i have consulted one oncologist.he physically checked it and said it does not appears as carcinoma.he has written in prescription "soft and firm(but not hard lump) mass".He has suggested one antibiotic cream i.e. T-Bact for 5days.
under these circumstances,i want your views regarding -
1)what it is?
2)what to do?
I was suffered from chicken pox in the month of march,this year and taken Zovirax-800 five times aday for 7 days.
Brief Answer:
could be a lymph node or infected sebaceous cyst
Detailed Answer:
Hello Mr. XXXXXXX
Welcome again to HealthcareMagic.
You seem to be having either an infected sebaceous cyst or a lymph node, as per the description of you and your doctors.
I would suggest that you complete the course of antibiotics prescribed to you. If the swelling still persists, you show it to a surgeon for its excision and pathological examination.
Hope i have been helpful.
Regards,
Dr. Ashish Verma
could be a lymph node or infected sebaceous cyst
Detailed Answer:
Hello Mr. XXXXXXX
Welcome again to HealthcareMagic.
You seem to be having either an infected sebaceous cyst or a lymph node, as per the description of you and your doctors.
I would suggest that you complete the course of antibiotics prescribed to you. If the swelling still persists, you show it to a surgeon for its excision and pathological examination.
Hope i have been helpful.
Regards,
Dr. Ashish Verma
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is it a tumour? if swealling persist then what will be the possibilities? can it be a neurofibroma? the oncologist after examination has told me that it is not a case of carcinoma,what is your oplnion?
Brief Answer:
unlikely to be a neurofibroma
Detailed Answer:
Sir,
A swelling with redness arround is mostly an inflammatory/infected swelling and these are benign swellings. Carcinoma rarely present in this manner.
If it doesn't subsides, get it removed, and sent it to pathologist, they will tell you what exactly it is - benign or malignant, so that further treatment (if necessary) can be done.
Neurofibromas don't have redness around them.
Regards,
Dr. Ashish Verma
unlikely to be a neurofibroma
Detailed Answer:
Sir,
A swelling with redness arround is mostly an inflammatory/infected swelling and these are benign swellings. Carcinoma rarely present in this manner.
If it doesn't subsides, get it removed, and sent it to pathologist, they will tell you what exactly it is - benign or malignant, so that further treatment (if necessary) can be done.
Neurofibromas don't have redness around them.
Regards,
Dr. Ashish Verma
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