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Hii have a lump on my penis doc said he thinks ingrown hair it looks like a biggg pimple what wld you say??

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Dr. Larry Xanthopoulos answered

Could be: Very hard to say anything specific without inspection of a lesion/

Answered 1/31/2017

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