Lipoma Removal – What It Is, How It Can Be Treated And What Are The Results?
A lipoma can be removed surgically on the forehead, arms, leg, or body. Local anesthetic injections are used to remove lipomas while you are awake. It usually takes between 20 and 45 minutes to remove a lipoma.
What is lipoma?
Lipomas are lumps of fatty tissue that develop under the skin. Lipomas are usually soft, but they can also be firm and squidgy. When pushed in one direction or another, a lipoma may move slightly.
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A lipoma can be removed surgically on the forehead, arms, leg, or body. Local anesthetic injections are used to remove lipomas while you are awake. It usually takes between 20 and 45 minutes to remove a lipoma.
What is lipoma?
Lipomas are lumps of fatty tissue that develop under the skin. Lipomas are usually soft, but they can also be firm and squidgy. When pushed in one direction or another, a lipoma may move slightly.
Normally, lipomas do not develop for any particular reason in healthy, normal people. Lipomas may occur in more than one place in some people. It is possible for lipomas to run in families sometimes.
What is the best time to remove a lipoma?
Most lipomas can be left alone. There are many reasons why you might want to remove a lipoma. The following are some reasons why people choose to have a lipoma removed:
- It doesn’t look good
- A lipoma has grown and has become quite obvious and prominent
- There is discomfort and tenderness due to the lipoma
- Lipomas are awkward or sensitive lesions
- Lipomas are growing
- Since it is not certain clinically that you have a lipoma, the lump needs to be removed to be examined
- It is much easier to remove lipomas when they are smaller.
Forehead lipoma removal
A lipoma can occur on the forehead and is often mistaken for a cyst. It is usually located under or between the muscles of the forehead and can be surgically removed.
How does lipoma removal surgery work?
Lipoma skin is numbed with a local anesthetic injection. Following numbing, an incision is made as long as the lipoma. After the lipoma is removed, the wound is stitched together in a fine line. In order to minimize the visibility of the scar, it is made as small as possible. In 7 to 10 days after surgery, stitches may be absorbed or removed.
Consultation for the removal of lipomas
Lipoma removal consultations are an opportunity to discuss the procedure fully with the Dermatologist who will perform the procedure. Your lipoma can then be removed at any time convenient to you.
A lipoma removal consultation will also allow the doctor to confirm that the lesion is indeed a lipoma. Other types of skin lesions can mimic lipomas, including cysts, lymph nodes, and skin tumors. An ultrasound scan or additional tests may be required by your dermatologist at times.
Is there a scar following lipoma removal?
Following lipoma removal, a scar is usually a fine line that is as long as the lipoma that was removed.
How risky is the lipoma removal procedure?
Scarring, infection, and bleeding are all risks associated with surgery. A lipoma can recur, in which case it can be removed again. Nerve damage can occur if lipomas are close to nerves, resulting in numbness.
Skin lesions of other types
Our clinic also offers removal of moles, warts, seborrhoeic keratoses, skin tags, genital skin tags, and milia cysts.
FAQs
Once a lipoma has developed, it cannot be removed on its own. A lipoma is composed of fat cells.
In order to be removed, do I need to undergo any investigations or tests?
It is usually possible to diagnose a lipoma clinically before surgical removal. If the lump is very deep or large, your doctor may recommend an ultrasound scan or an MRI scan. The biopsy allows further information about the lump to be gathered, such as the depth of the lipoma.
Large lipomas can be reduced in size with liposuction. Most lipomas cannot be treated this way.
It will take 10-14 days for stitched wounds to heal. Please avoid heavy exercise or anything strenuous during this period. It is usually possible to return to an office job the next day. Showers can still be taken while the splash-proof dressing is applied. In 7 to 10 days, stitches can be removed.
The next day, you can return to your office-based job. Dermatologists recommend that you wait 14-28 days before considering swimming, watersports, exercise in which you will sweat or cause clothing to rub against the healing wound, heavy lifting, and sauna and steam room use.
We have highly experienced Dermatologists who are well able to provide you with sound advice and excellent service for lipoma removal.
