Question: A few months ago I felt what I though to be something rib like on my upper right chest, right below my clavicle. It felt like it started at my sternum and made a slight upwards curve toward my clavicle. About 3 inches long and about an inch wide. It's not very thick, but it's palatable, hard and doesn't move. I can move my skin over it but I cannot move it, itself. It is not painful. It is not round, but more like a rib crossing perpendicular across my other ribs.

I've had an X-ray done, with no abnormalities found and I've also had an ultrasound done. The ultrasound noted a 1.5x0.5x1.5 cm solid lesion. I've attached the zip file with the images and report from my ultrasound.

Once the report came back I went for the MRI with and without contrast.

The radiologist report says no mass, but I have some images I'd like explained to me as what it is I'm looking at. I found some strange images in the exact place that I have this mass.

Thank you. Did you review the Ultrasound image as well? The pictures I provided are in the location of the swelling, and match the size reported in the ultrasound. Although I have been told veins before, it makes me interested to know what could it be, if it werent veins? Is there any test or bloodwork i can do to further along the diagnosis? They noted several 7-10 mm lymph nodes as well, so I just want to figure out whats going on.

The swelling hasn't gone down at all. It's still very much there and the swelling was present at the time of the MRI. I understand the pictures make it look bigger, and I'm not arguing that it looks like veins. However, I'm not just going to take the answer you provided, as it doesn't make sense. I have a rather large "mass" on my chest, that is immovable, palpable and not painful. The ultrasound noted a 1.5x0.5x1.5 cm solid lesion inside my chest wall when they ultrasound the swelling. Where these blood vessels are joining up, is where the mass is on my chest. Although the mass feels larger, the actual "lesion" is only a little over 1 cm long, so I understand the size in relation to what I'm looking at. My issue is that there is nothing else inside my subcutaneous tissues that even remotely resemble what I'm seeing on the images. I've looked all through the MRI and tried to compare the right as well and other images that look similar to what I'm seeing, and I don't see anything. This is abnormal, and it hasn't gone away. So my question is if it's veins, why is it swelling and hard?

That makes sense. Ok, I'll be chatting w/ my doctor on Thursday and see what the next steps are. He is trying to get me a PET scan, but I guess it's difficult with an HMO and the MRI results say there is "nothing." Anyway, thanks for the information, I appreciate it :)