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A 36-year-old member asked:
Dr. Robin Rosenberg answered
44 years experience General Surgery
Sxcision: Multiple excieions as long as there is no genetic disease such as von recklinghouse disease.
Dr. Randy Stevens answered
24 years experience General Surgery
No cure except excis: You have multiple lipomas and are looking for a cure. Lipomas are multiple tumors of fat. They are considered non cancers unless they grow very larg ... Read More
Dr. Mark Pack answered
31 years experience General Surgery
Excision : They only option for removing my promises surgical excision.
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A 26-year-old male asked:
Dr. Monique Cohn answered
32 years experience Dermatology
Surgery: Lipomas are fatty tumors located beneath the skin. Surgery is the only option for their removal.
Dr. Jason Lichten answered
23 years experience Plastic Surgery
Probably not: The short answer is that most lipomas are treated by surgical excision.
Dr. Ki-Hon Lin answered
25 years experience Orthopedic Surgery
Possibly: There is an ultrasound treatment called liposonix which could potentially be an option. Other than that, only surgery. Keep in mind that multiple li ... Read More
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Dr. Addagada Rao answered
56 years experience General Surgery
NO: go and see a surgeon and get it removed
A 48-year-old member asked:
Dr. Morris Westfried answered
46 years experience Dermatology
Surgery: Surgery is only way to remove lipomas. Unless they are painful they do not need to be removed. Lipomas can be removed through small incision .If you m ... Read More
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A 32-year-old female asked:
Dr. Barry Rosen answered
34 years experience General Surgery
Coincidence: Removal of a lipoma would have no effect on your breasts. Differentiating nipple discharge (pathologic) from secretion (physiologic) can be tricky. Fa ... Read More
A 19-year-old male asked:
Dr. Addagada Rao answered
56 years experience General Surgery
None: There is no natural cures , if you have so many , they may not be lipomas , they could be neurofibromas . See your doctor get at least one biopsied ... Read More
A 42-year-old member asked:
Dr. Robert Uyeda answered
45 years experience General Surgery
Yes, lipomas: Can be hard and sometimes even painful. Depending on location and size, your soft tissue mass could be something else, something more worrisome. It ... Read More
A 33-year-old female asked:
Dr. Addagada Rao answered
56 years experience General Surgery
NO: They do not 'come and go' , lipoma is a slow growing , benign tumor of fat tissue, once develop will not disappear , unless removed, rarely they can ... Read More
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A 27-year-old male asked:
Dr. Matthew Lublin answered
25 years experience General Surgery
Unknown : No one is sure how and why lipomas form. However, they are almost always not cancerous and easily removed by a simple operation.
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A 38-year-old female asked:
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Depends...: If is a solitary one and painful and also localized in a place that could interfere with quality of life, it should be removed. If there are however m ... Read More
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