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Lipoma Growing Back or 2nd Lipoma?
asked 1 year ago by Whiting65 in Rupert, Idaho
Latest answer by Jessica J. Krant, MD, MPH
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Tags: arms
I had a large lipoma removed a year ago in my forearm leaving a four inch scar down my forearm. A week after the lipoma was removed I had a huge hamatoma appear. That finally went away, months later, and now I am getting another lump on the bottom of my scar and down further into the arm. When the doctor took the lipoma out he was concerned as it did not look like a lipoma and wasn't sure what it was but the pathology came back as an undescript lipoma. Do I leave this other lump alone?
1 answer to Lipoma Growing Back or 2nd Lipoma?
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May be a second lipoma, but I would get it checked anyway.
I'm sorry to hear you went through so much only to have more going on. I always am careful to tell patients that lipoma removal does come with the risk of a recurrence because the deeper parts of even a benign lipoma can be interwoven in muscle fibers and hard to completely remove.
In your case, if the pathology said "nondescript lipoma", I would interpret that as "plain lipoma" meaning, nothing to worry about, but if it said something more vague like...
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