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What Is This Lump Between The Chest Bones Which Hurts On Touching? Has Got Habit Of Smoking
My wife has a lump in between here chest bones where the rib cage meets it feels like ahard ball the size of walnut it hurts when she touches it she is 26 years old and in good health she 125 pounds and smokes but not too much maybe a cigarette every other day no history in the family and not sure what it is. Any idea
Mon, 16 Dec 2013
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Looking to her age and the history given here it can be said that the chances of having lipoma is just likely. you need to keep close watch on the size of this lesion and other symptoms too if it goes on increasing in size or becomes painful without touching it then it has to be brought for investigation otherwise nothing to worry, even if it is lipoma then also it can be excised successfully, have nice day.
Thank for asking to HCM
Looking to her age and the history given here it can be said that the chances of having lipoma is just likely. you need to keep close watch on the size of this lesion and other symptoms too if it goes on increasing in size or becomes painful without touching it then it has to be brought for investigation otherwise nothing to worry, even if it is lipoma then also it can be excised successfully, have nice day.
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