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How To Treat A Hard Protuberance Under The Right Chest?
Dr. Santosh is possible to give me a phone call, I need to discuss with you a health problem that is having it a teenager nephew, under his right chest, suddenly is growing a protuberance, hard as a rock and very painful. During his early years he suffered domestic violence caused by his maternal family, bad nutrition which cause sometimes he faints. I need to help him, first to get a diagnostic of that protuberance he has. Thank you Carmen, I can be reach at 201-374-1599 also my e-mail address, YYYY@YYYY
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Thu, 13 Mar 2014
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Hi,
According to the history I strongly recommend you to do a chest CT with contrast to see what is that thing and after having the results, please discuss this with your doctor to decide further.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Jnikolla,
Pulmonologist
According to the history I strongly recommend you to do a chest CT with contrast to see what is that thing and after having the results, please discuss this with your doctor to decide further.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Jnikolla,
Pulmonologist
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