Modern people turn pale when they hear "tumor", but only when they hear "lipoma" can they laugh and shout "Don't take it personally!" From the probability point of view, the prevalence rate of lipoma is only1100, in which1100 will become malignant liposarcoma, and the probability of one in ten thousand is really not high, so many people think that resection of lipoma is equivalent to getting a knife for nothing, or even cutting it may be longer. However, for medical experts, lipoma is a kind of "sub-health" and cannot be taken lightly.
One day at a family gathering, Uncle Chen, who was about 60 years old, suddenly mentioned that he had a lipoma in his stomach that had been with him for more than 20 years. In recent years, it has become bigger and bigger. Recently, he finally went to the hospital for surgery. After the removal, he felt refreshed and even showed off the doctor's skills. After the wound healed, he could hardly see the scar!
Hearing this, Uncle Chen's brother-in-law sitting across the dining table became interested and began to share several lipomas on his back and arms. Although he thinks this will hinder his appearance, considering that lipomas are small and painless to the touch, and the older generation all say that "lipomas will be cut more and more" and "fat people are more likely to grow lipomas", he maintains a light eating habit and does not actively want to remove them.
However, is your knowledge of lipoma or your "brain tonic" (in comic terms, you fantasize about completing the plot that is not mentioned in the article) really correct? The following six questions and answers will help you learn more about lipoma, as well as the treatment and prevention methods after you find lipoma!
Most lipomas grow under the skin near the body surface, especially on the back, shoulders, trunk and limbs. Question 1: Lipoma only grows on the skin?
Shi Bochun, a plastic surgeon at Changhua Christian Hospital, said that lipoma is a benign tumor formed by abnormal proliferation of fat cells, with an average of/kloc-0 to 200 people, and it is more common in 40 to 60 years old. Boys are more common than girls, and orientals are more common than westerners.
Most lipomas grow under the skin close to the body surface, especially on the back, shoulders, trunk and limbs, so people mistakenly think that lipomas only grow in the skin. In fact, there are fat cells all over the body, so lipomas may also grow outside the skin. Clinically, many cases of lipomas are found in the large intestine and muscles.
Question 2: Do obese people have lipomas?
The answer is "not necessarily"! Although lipoma often appears in obese people, lipoma is not a patent for obese people, and thin people may also be troubled by lipoma. Dr. Shi Bochun analyzed the common possible causes of lipoma, and thought that "obesity" could only rank second, the culprit was "heredity and family history", and the third was "lack of exercise".