How to Get Rid of Armpit Fat?
asked 1 year ago by 3786anon in dubai
Latest answer by Steven Wallach, MD
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Tags: armpit
when i was just developing in my armpits..i used to feel conscious and cut the hair there with a pair of scissors..i used to try cutting it really fine..by pulling the skin...and now i have this fat like thing in my armpits...like a blob of fat...itz really wierd...will it go with some exercises? or is there a need for surgery? plz help..
4 answers to How to Get Rid of Armpit Fat?
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Armpit fat
Armpit fat may be fatty tissue or can be axillary breast tissue. The fat can be suctioned but the axillary breast needs to be excised.
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Removal of axillary or armpit fat or fullness.
I would agree with Dr. Aldea's assesment and recommendations. Armpit "fat" can actually breast tissue or prominent lymph nodes. Due to the presence of lymphatic vessels and nerves in this area, liposuction cannot be indiscriminately used and removal generally requires excision with an open approach.
Otto Joseph Placik, MD
Chicago Plastic Surgeon
Chicago Plastic Surgeon
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Lipoma or Inclusion Cyst
Two entities come to mind here. One is that you might have a lipoma, a benign fatty tumor. The second entity might be an epidermal inclusion cyst ( often erroneously called a sebaceous cyst). These can be created when the overlying skin is damaged, the pore ( or follicular orifice) is scarred and plugged and keratin ( not sebum!) fills up beneath the clogged pore
. These two conditions can be cured surgically quite easily, so it is this treatment you should seek....
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Arnold R. Oppenheim, MD
Virginia Beach Dermatologist
Virginia Beach Dermatologist
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Arm Pit Fat
Several comments.
Arm pit fat may be fatty tumor (IE Lipoma) or more commonly extension sideways of fat from the breast. Depending on its size and the amount of skin involved it is managed by liposuction or by direct surgical removal.
Surgery should ALWAYS be done by ANOTHER surgeon. Any patient who operates on herself/himself needs a psychiatric evaluation. This holds regardless of the degree of medical or surgical training the person has. No one should be doing self-surgery....
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