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Little holes on the cut where a lipoma was removed (Photo)

June 1, 2018
Asked By:john1985209 in American Fork, UT

On April 13th I had a lipoma removed from my back the stitches healed, about two weeks ago I noticed little hole where the scar is where they cut now I cant get them to close and white pus with little blood come out is this normal? are the stiches that they put inside are getting spit out of the cut?

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