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What Causes Recurring Lump On Back Of The Neck?

I have a recurring lump on the back of my neck below my hairlinr and above my shoulders. it hurts to the touch. It seems that every now and again it becomes immflamed and swells which is when it hurts. other times it is smaller but I can still feel it?
posted on Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Hi.
Thanks for your query.
The typical character of the lump you described looks most probably to be an infected sebaceous cyst. Although the infection is mild and recurrent.
This does not look to be lipoma.
The best way to get a diagnosis is clinical and excision.
This helps in 2 ways:
1. you get disease free.
2 get a definite diagnosis.
So please go ahead with the excision- removal.
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What Causes Recurring Lump On Back Of The Neck?

Hi. Thanks for your query. The typical character of the lump you described looks most probably to be an infected sebaceous cyst. Although the infection is mild and recurrent. This does not look to be lipoma. The best way to get a diagnosis is clinical and excision. This helps in 2 ways: 1. you get disease free. 2 get a definite diagnosis. So please go ahead with the excision- removal.