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Lump appeared suddenly, left side of head, hard, extremely painful, had removed 5 days ago pain terrible now with 2 large indents and tons of pain?

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Need to know more: Who removed it? similar incident in the past? was biopsy done? family member with similar case?

Answered 6/26/2016

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