Tumors that are and which are not

Move your hand over your head. You will find on it one or more seals, which you did not notice before? Do not worry. It exostosis - harmless growths on the bones. Women often remove them for cosmetic reasons. My favorite aunt had a mound in the middle of his forehead, like a horn; he was sick and was not dangerous, but she decided to get rid of it, because she did not like what he looked like. Now Feel under his arm. You will find there is something solid and painless. This is serious? It is possible, especially if you are a woman and have not done an X-ray of the breast.

A tumor elsewhere in the body is terrible. But fear is not always justified. Here you will read about some common tumors, and about when you really need to worry, and when - no. In most cases, however, you should check the bump just to calm down.

Here are some categories of tumors and swellings, which you should know.

Lipomas - accumulation of fat, which are formed under the skin in obese people. The mounds are soft and easy to roll under your fingers. Leave them alone, unless, of course, they do not get sick (which sometimes happens when they grow too) and do not cause cosmetic discomfort.

Fibroids - benign another type of tubercles, the touch is usually more solid than fat.

From time to time a cancer arising elsewhere, distributed and retained under the skin in the form of a hillock. In such cases, covering the pigmented skin or discolored, the tumor itself feels more dense and not as easy to move as benign tumors.

Subcutaneous hemorrhage may leave discolored swelling due to coagulated blood. This usually happens after an injury, no matter how trivial it may look at first. But the more common cause, more often than allowed by the medical staff, when, in order to take a blood test, a standard needle pierce your skin, the needle makes a tiny hole in the wall of the vein. After removal of the needle and before the hole closes nature, it continues to ooze blood from the vein into surrounding tissue. Depending on the intensity of the leak certain amount of blood is still there and in a few days will look like a tumor. This often happens if you bleed easily (what would happen if you regularly take aspirin or treated with anticoagulants) if used needle was defective, microscopic barbs that made a hole in the vein of a little more, and, of course, if the nurse is not immediately found a vein and he has done it more than one hole. In any case, these bumps eventually disappear.

A similar complication may arise after the removal of angiograms - where you injected dye into the blood, to see your blood vessels on x-ray. Any leak that occurs after such a procedure are more pronounced than in the simple taking of blood, because there is a punctured vessel - usually in the groin - the artery, not Vienna. Artery bleed more heavily than the veins. Once the catheter which is introduced through the paint removed, blood leaks from a femoral artery tissue and lower abdomen. The whole area becomes red, black, blue and yellow (the colors change over time) and swells. The main part of the blood is drawn back, but for weeks and sometimes months of dense mound remains. If this happens to you, do not panic. He, too, will disappear. But if you feel that it pulsates, it means that the artery remains ejects blood. Seek immediate medical attention.

Bleeding can also occur in injured or ill body and increase it so that it will look like a mound. A good example - bleeding in the spleen due to an illness. When you probe your abdomen, you think that you have a tumor.

When the liquid is in a confined space, from which she can not go out there and becomes infected, an abscess is formed, the abscess. Most of us have had these ulcers, interior and differentiated (in the gums, in the hair follicles of the skin) or internal and invisible (in the liver, lung or gallbladder). Depending on the location of such an abscess can be recognized as a tumor, which is "susceptible" when you press down on it, as it contains pus.

Usually you do not palpable lymph nodes in the neck, groin, armpit and behind the elbows, if not increased. These glands work as filters, and all that they capture in their work - viruses, bacteria and tumor cells - makes them swell. If you find a gland that's useful clear rule. If it is firm and painless, it probably indicates malignancy elsewhere; if it is tender, soft, and is free to move, probably the case in infection. But remember, the only way by which you and your doctor can be absolutely sure of the diagnosis - is taking a piece of a biopsy.

Sometimes a "tumor" - a result of changes in "geography" of the body: the body is located, where you do not expect it. The best example - in the abdomen. In medical practice there were cases when detected "tumor" in the stomach, upon further examination it turned out perfectly healthy kidney, which "went south". Sometimes cancer metastasis in healthy tissue of the body can be detected as new tubercles. The liver is particularly attracted to the migration of cancer cells. When they spread there, hard, uneven (not smooth), painless swelling appears in the upper right quadrant of the abdomen. This is bad news.

Some organs of the body are the sacks, whose content reaches the "outside world" through the ducts. When the duct draining one of these bodies, clogged generated content goes back and stretches the body. The result - "tumor" or swelling. Familiar examples are all salivary glands (one on each side of the jaw below the ears). Saliva, which they form, reaches the cavity by the salivary ducts. When one of these ducts formed stone or as a result of infection, they are sealed - what happens, say, when pig - face is swollen because of iron continues to produce saliva, which has nowhere to go except back!

The same, albeit less markedly occurs in a tiny skin glands, which secrete oil. If they are small ducts leading to the surface, become infected, the secret goes back that gives a little painful bump that we call chirem. If it increases to a significant size, then it abscess.

The gallbladder stores bile produced by the liver, and pushes it into the intestine, as required, through the ducts. If the bile ducts are chronically plugged (usually as a result of compression of the tumor, growing close to the abdomen, most commonly the pancreas) gall goes back and stretches the gallbladder. You can hardly feel it, but the doctor will feel if it you carefully examine. Swelling is usually painless and is typical for pancreatic cancer. Stones bridging gallbladder, often it does not increase so much that it could palpate because they tend to move within a few days.