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Can Your Spleen Grow Back
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Can your spleen grow back?
It's happened!: One person in four has one or more miniature spleens. After therapeutic splenectomy, they regrow sometimes as big as the original, frustrating the surgeon -- or if the spleen is removed because of accidental injury, it's good news. ...Read more
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Can your adenoids grow back if removed?
No: Not if COMPLETELY removed
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Can your tonsils to grow back?
No: When a complete tonsillectomy is performed, the gland does not grow back. Some techniques are partial tonsillectomies, leaving remnant glandular elements in the tonsillar fossae or inferior poles. These elements can become enalrged with chronic inflammation, but this is not true regrowth. ...Read more
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Can you get herpe on your lymph node in the throat and your brain if your stomuch pushes gas up to your head. And can this cause depression?
???: For a specialist to answer your question , it has to be a little more clear, can you rephrase it? ...Read more
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Can you tell me if all fibroids grow out to protrude your stomach?
No: Fibroids can grow into the uterine cavity (intraluminal), under the inner lining of the uterine cavity (submucosal), in the wall of the uterus (intramural), under the outer lining of the uterus (subserosal) or pedunculated. The subserosal and pedunculated varieties are the ones that stick out. They can grow back towards your spine or front towards your belly. ...Read more
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Can u see a enlarged spleen lying on your back?
Usually not: Enlarged spleens peek out from below the rib arch on the left, but won't protrude upward. Even if the abdomen is sunken in and fully relaxed, most people have enough fat and/or ab muscle to prevent it from being visible even when it is easily felt. A very large spleen (gaucher's, schistosomiasis, malaria) might be seen as an asymmetry in the upper left quadrant. ...Read more
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Can benign hepatic liver lesions spread to other body areas? Waiting to see if they grow in few months with mri. Can i get these out will come back?
No: By definition benign hepatic or liver lesions don't spread or else they are not benign but malignant. Rarely "benign" that is non-cancer, non-malignant liver lesions grow big enough to rupture or cause symptoms requiring surgery, but most are incidental findings during imaging study such as us, ct scan or MRI & are of no consequence other than usually followed over time to confirm not growing. ...Read more
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Can you grow taller when you're in your 20's?
Unlikely to happen: Some kids continue to grow taller into their late teens or rarely early twenties but only when their bone maturity lags behind their age. If the growth centers of the long bones have fused, you cannot grow taller. A single x-ray of the wrist ; hand can yield a bone maturity. When you have reached bony maturity, you are done. ...Read more
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Can you give me advice* how can body hair grow back normal, without irritation and look and be normal again?
Healthy growth: For healthy hair growth: Get adequate sleep,avoid excess sugar & fat in diet, v carbonated beverages, eat enough protein, exercise regularly. Biotin helps (but don't over do it). Insure you have adequate Iron (think kale & other dark green leafies), Omega 3 fatty acids (think walnuts) and vitamin E (fruits & vegetables). ...Read more
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Can you please explain why the lymph nodes in my neck swell and then shrink?
Infection: The lymph nodes drain inflammatory fluids away from sites of infection. If swollen node is shrinking it is doing its job, if it continually swells and shrinks, you likely have a persistent infection, an example would be a dental abscess that drains and gets worse with time, but can reduce temporarily with a route for drainage through tooth or gums. See an md or dentist and good luck. ...Read more
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Can you hair grow back after your thyroids are leveled?
Often yes: But takes time- year.
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Can a spleen grow back from a rupture spleen spleenectomy?
Sometimes: There are parts of spleen that can be in the area that can grow -. ...Read more
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Can losing your virginity cause your breasts to grow?
NO: Unless you become pregnant.
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Can a borderline enlarged liver from fatty liver cause your muscles to hurt and ache?
It is not likely..: Fatty liver by itself typically does not cause pain. Acute hepatitis--either from infection/alcohol/or drugs can cause pain, but you will have other symptoms as well. From knowing a bit of your history (you have lost 52lbs in 6 months and liver is only "borderline fatty"), i sincerely doubt the liver is the cause of your pain. Please consult doc for eval what else is causing your pain. Good luck. ...Read more
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Could your liver make your back hurt?
Maybe gallstones?: Stones in the gallbladder (gb) can project pain to the back --they migrate into the neck of the gb (& block exit of bile) or into the common bile duct. Symptomless gallstones may be diagnosed by chance by imaging or during investigation for some other condition. Only 10% become symptomatic within 5 years of detection.Ultrasound, CT scan, MRCP find stones & CCK-HIDA scan can suggest dysfunction. ...Read more
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Can cancerous tumors in the groin shrink on their own and then swell back up?
Groin nodes: Are found in few cancers and lymphoma. Cancers do not wax and wane, but lymphomas might. ...Read more
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How could body hair grow back normal, without irritation and look and be normal again?
Consider putting : this question in context? Was there loss of body hair in any specific body locations? If yes, what are the locations? Did you do some form of procedure that led to the hair loss or too shorter hair? If yes, what? If no, did you have other symptoms at the time of hair loss? There isn't enough information to be able to provide you with the guidance you seek. ...Read more
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Can you help? Could strengthening the chest muscles cause breast shrinking?
No but wt loss may: Strengthening muscles will not generally cause breast shrinking unless accompanied by an increase in lean body mass and weight loss along with body fat loss. ...Read more
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Can back pain cause your breast to hurt?
No: Back pain should not cause your breasts to hurt. On the other hand, if you have very large breasts, you may have back pain from that. ...Read more
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