A 23-year-old female asked:
i have a lump on my toe the one next to the pinky toe , and it has been there for years . it doesn't hurt at all even if i wear tight shoes. i can grab it and when i do it feels like a solid but yet soft lump. i've always remembered having it though?
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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr answered
41 years experience Preventive Medicine
Tissue growth, as is: our entire vehicle (body). Your self-exam findings are consistent with likely healthy tissue, though apparently it long ago grew beyond what usually occurs for the 4th toe (internal controls still poorly understood). If you felt the tissue is cosmetically displeasing to you, then it could likely be removed by any physician with some basic plastic surgery (seamstress work for tissues) experience.
Answered on Oct 21, 2017
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