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What Does Large, Dark Protrusion Around Belly Button Mean?
My 43 year old Indian foster brother has a large dark protrusion over the area of his belly button about 3-inches in diameter with no belly button in sight. It isn t just a bulge under the skin...it looks like the top half of an Indian-skinned colored tennis ball pushing up through his skin if that makes any sense.When I looked it up online it looks exactly like pictures that are labelled as an incarcerated hernia but I m not sure. An ER doctor did see it once but told him it was no big deal. Is that true?
Mon, 29 Sep 2014
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It could be an umblical hernia or spigelian hernia..Get an Ultasound abdomen to know whether it is incarcerated or strangulated..consult your surgeon for expert management.
Thankyou
It could be an umblical hernia or spigelian hernia..Get an Ultasound abdomen to know whether it is incarcerated or strangulated..consult your surgeon for expert management.
Thankyou
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