I felt dense hard grains in the thigh meat

In general, our thighs have more flesh, and people don't pay much attention to the care of their thighs. Sometimes when the thighs suffer from some diseases, they will not be discovered quickly, especially some diseases of the subcutaneous tissue, which are more difficult to detect. When you touch it with your hands, you will feel hard grains in the thigh flesh. This situation is likely to be lipoma. Generally, lipomas are benign, so there is no need to worry too much.

How do lipomas form?

Lipoma is a common benign tumor. There are many reasons for the formation of lipomas, and the specific reasons are not yet very clear. The main reasons are as follows:

1. Since this type of tumor is more likely to occur in fat-rich areas, obese patients are more likely to develop the disease than normal patients.

2. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the formation of lipoma is related to the liver and spleen. Therefore, people who are often angry, irritable, and overly worried are more likely to suffer from this type of disease.

3. Irregular daily diet can also damage the liver and spleen, especially patients who skip breakfast for a long time and those who eat high-cholesterol foods for a long time are most likely to suffer from this type of disease.

How to treat lipoma

Treatment principles:

1. Small (less than 1 cm in diameter) and multiple lipomas generally do not require treatment.

2. Larger tumors should be removed surgically.

Cure: The tumor was completely removed without recurrence.

Method selection:

The only effective treatment is surgical resection. For those with multiple tumors (some patients may have more than a hundred), they can only choose to remove the ones that have the greatest impact and are most painful first. There is no cure yet. Some use liposuction, making a small incision in the skin and inserting a suction tube to remove larger lipomas or localized fat excess without leaving noticeable scars. Of course, this is also a local treatment.

Surgical resection

If superficial lipoma affects function, labor and aesthetics, surgery may be considered.

Preoperative preparation: Clean the local skin.

Anesthesia: Local anesthesia is used.

Surgical steps:

The surface skin of the lipoma is incised along the skin lines. Use curved hemostats to separate the tumor along the tumor capsule, and clamp and ligate all blood vessels seen. Lipomas are often multi-lobed and irregular in shape, and care should be taken to completely separate the lipoma tissue with the capsule. Use tissue forceps to lift the tumor, separate the base, and remove the tumor. After hemostasis, the incision was sutured in layers.

Postoperative care: The incision dressing should be properly bandaged. The stitches are removed 6 to 7 days after surgery.