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What Causes Lump Behind Knee Near An Operation Site?
hi i had a mole removed and the stiches should have came out after 2 weeks but i couldn`t get an appointment at the doctors until 17 daysafter, the site burst open and is infected i am on antibiotics but now have a large lump behind my knee near to the op site,are they related?
Mon, 21 Apr 2014
Hi.
This is possibly a cellulitis/ pre-existing lump getting large like baker's cyst.
Ultrasonography can tell a probable diagnosis.
Anyways , you have to get control over the infection first.
If the lump is an abscess ( which ultrasonography and FNAC will prove) it may need incision and drainage in a proper way by the Surgeon .
This is possibly a cellulitis/ pre-existing lump getting large like baker's cyst.
Ultrasonography can tell a probable diagnosis.
Anyways , you have to get control over the infection first.
If the lump is an abscess ( which ultrasonography and FNAC will prove) it may need incision and drainage in a proper way by the Surgeon .
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