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Osteoma lump on forgead
I feel there is a small lump on my forehead. May be its osteoma. Can it be curable ? Do I need to do any surgery for it? How much it will cost?
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Osteoma are none tumors has harmful wait and watch. No treatment required unless increasing in size or pressure effect
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Skull Xray CT required rule out any changes requiring intervention
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Benign tumour wait and watch
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Dr. R Vijayshankar
General Surgeon
14 yrs exp
Coimbatore
What makes u say its osteoma ???To get a proper diagnosis we need proper clinical examination and followed by usg of swelling and if inconclusive a CT scan would confirm the diagnosis and we can proceed further...it could even be a benign swelling also...
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Dr. Mohammed Jameel Ahmed
General Surgeon
28 yrs exp
Nagpur
Hi
Why do you think it as a tumor
It may be a simple cyst
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visit a Surgeon
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CT may be needed if hard or midline swelling
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