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What Causes Lumps In Genitals In Elderly?
hi doctor, my father who is 54 years old his undergoing dialysis for two years. He has a cyst/lump on his arm but after a while it vanished and he noticed another lump on his leg and also on his genital area. He said it is not painful unless you press and put pressure. What do you think it is?do we need to worry and consult a doctor right away? thank you doctor hope you can enlighten me about this.
Fri, 20 Mar 2015
Hi! thanks for sharing your father's health problem relating to recurrent lumps!
After going through your description of his spontaneous and vanishing recurrent lumps on random areas in his body parts including genital areas and with history of dialysis, if I were your family physician, I would like to consider following possibilities:
1. gouty tophus could be related to high uric acid level
2. skin edema due to renal failure
3. small hematomas
4. bursa like benign skin cysts
5. lymph nodes due to infections or cancer
6. malignancy
7. other cystic lesions could be neoplastic
8. spontaneous skin boils/subacute infections
Therefore, these lumps could well be related to some underlying severe disease even cancer or spontaneous infections as complications of dialysis; please see his urologist ASAP for a needle biopsy to confirm and relieve your concerns;
Wishing your father good health.
After going through your description of his spontaneous and vanishing recurrent lumps on random areas in his body parts including genital areas and with history of dialysis, if I were your family physician, I would like to consider following possibilities:
1. gouty tophus could be related to high uric acid level
2. skin edema due to renal failure
3. small hematomas
4. bursa like benign skin cysts
5. lymph nodes due to infections or cancer
6. malignancy
7. other cystic lesions could be neoplastic
8. spontaneous skin boils/subacute infections
Therefore, these lumps could well be related to some underlying severe disease even cancer or spontaneous infections as complications of dialysis; please see his urologist ASAP for a needle biopsy to confirm and relieve your concerns;
Wishing your father good health.
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