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What Causes A Lump On The Head?

I have had a lump on my head for a couple of years, it formed on my head after a stone wear loaf pan fell out of a cabinet and hit my head, recently I noticed it was a little bigger, it is soft but almost feels like it s filled with fluid or it feels similar to a lipoma, today I as poetically poked it with a needle and it started leaking clear non odorous fluid, it shrunk a bit, as I palpated the area I can feel a hold in my skull which the bump has covered up, it s a hole the size of a fingertip. Is it possible it was CSF leaking and I have a serious problem?
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Hi, thanks for sharing your health concerns with HCM!

If I were your treating Doctor for this case of a head lump, I would come up with only one and one possibility that is a sebaceous cyst! Nothing to worry about this and try not to get infected there!

Well, this is a fairly common benign disease of the skin/skin appendages and CSF has nothing to do with it; however, in worse case it could be some parasitic cyst also!

I suggest you to go for an FNAC test of the lump for confirmation and to relieve your concerns!

Hope this answers your question. If you have additional questions or follow up questions then please do not hesitate in writing to us. I will be happy to answer your questions.

Wishing you good health.
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What Causes A Lump On The Head?

Hi, thanks for sharing your health concerns with HCM! If I were your treating Doctor for this case of a head lump, I would come up with only one and one possibility that is a sebaceous cyst! Nothing to worry about this and try not to get infected there! Well, this is a fairly common benign disease of the skin/skin appendages and CSF has nothing to do with it; however, in worse case it could be some parasitic cyst also! I suggest you to go for an FNAC test of the lump for confirmation and to relieve your concerns! Hope this answers your question. If you have additional questions or follow up questions then please do not hesitate in writing to us. I will be happy to answer your questions. Wishing you good health.