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Today someone slapped me on the back kind of hard, directly on a wound (with stitches) from a lipoma removal i had yesterday. should i be worried?
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Get it checked: Get surgical site checked by a health care professional to see if there is any change of the wound due to trauma.
Answered 9/3/2018
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