Pimple in the middle of the chest

A lump in the middle of your chest could be a symptom of a lipoma. As a benign tumor, lipoma is mostly caused by the patient's obesity, poor liver and spleen, and unreasonable daily diet. Although lipoma does not pose a great threat to human health, it is also a "time bomb" if not treated in time. Below, we will introduce the causes, symptoms and treatments of lipoma in detail.

1. How is lipoma formed?

Lipoma is a common benign tumor. There are many reasons for the formation of lipomas, and the specific reasons are not yet very clear. The main reasons are as follows:

1. Since this type of tumor is more likely to occur in fat-rich areas, obese patients are more likely to develop the disease than normal patients.

2. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the formation of lipoma is related to the liver and spleen. Therefore, people who are often angry, irritable, and overly worried are more likely to suffer from this type of disease.

3. Irregular daily diet can also damage the liver and spleen, especially patients who skip breakfast for a long time and those who eat high-cholesterol foods for a long time are most likely to suffer from this type of disease.

Second, lipoma symptoms

Lipomas generally occur in the trunk, limbs, and abdominal cavity, mainly under the skin, but can also be seen deep in the limbs and between the muscle bellies. Deep lipomas often grow along the muscles and can reach deep into the periosteum, but rarely invade adjacent bones.

Lipoma is generally a solitary lump, sometimes multiple, with clear boundaries, round or lobed shape, soft texture, slow growth, normal surface skin, movable, and varying sizes. Lipoma generally has no subjective symptoms, but it can cause pain if it compresses nerves.

3. How to treat lipoma

Treatment principles:

1. Small (less than 1 cm in diameter) and multiple lipomas generally do not require treatment.

2. Larger tumors should be removed surgically.

Cure: The tumor was completely removed without recurrence.

Method selection:

The only effective treatment is surgical resection. For those with multiple tumors (some patients may have more than a hundred), they can only choose to remove the ones that have the greatest impact and are most painful first. There is no cure yet. Some use liposuction, making a small incision in the skin and inserting a suction tube to remove larger lipomas or localized fat excess without leaving noticeable scars. Of course, this is also a local treatment.

Preoperative preparation: Clean the local skin.

Anesthesia: Local anesthesia is used.

Surgical steps:

The surface skin of the lipoma is incised along the skin lines. Use curved hemostats to separate the tumor along the tumor capsule, and clamp and ligate all blood vessels seen. Lipomas are often multi-lobed and irregular in shape, and care should be taken to completely separate the lipoma tissue with the capsule. Use tissue forceps to lift the tumor, separate the base, and remove the tumor. After hemostasis, the incision was sutured in layers.

Postoperative care: The incision dressing should be properly bandaged. The stitches are removed 6 to 7 days after surgery.