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Left Hand Swollen. No Blood Clots In Veins. Had Breast Cancer, Lymphedemia In Right Arm Previously. Reason For Swelling?
My left hand and arm are swollen. An ultra sound revealed there are no artiery obstruction (blood clots) in my veins. What else can it be. I had breast cancer in my right breast 17 years ago and lymphedemia in that arm. There has been no swelling in the left arm until 11 days ago.
Wed, 4 Dec 2013
hi it may distant spread of tumor or lymh node enlargment kindly get the biposy done for the swelling so that we can rule out malignacy
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