Suggest Treatment For Lump On The Inner Thigh

Posted on Tue, 23 Jun 2015

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Question : hi my son has a lump on his inner thigh, he has had an mri,
and they advise him to remove it and biopsy it is this routine or should I be worried,
they said they were not sure if it was a lipma, cyst or lyposarcoma, would he have any others symptons if it was liposarcoma, im scared

Answered by Dr. Grzegorz Stanko (14 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Liposarcoma grows very fast.

Detailed Answer:
Hello!

Thank you for the query.

For liposarcoma it is very characteristic that the lump grows very fast. Lipoma grows slowly. So if this lump has not become larger recently, and is there for a long time, liposarcoma is hardly possible.

Liposarcoma also very often is large. Lipoma can be large only after many many years.

Hope this will help. Feel free to ask further questions.
Regards.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar