To: 4Runner
Grapefruit-sized tumor. And the kid is only 11 years old. How big is the kid? Are we talking about minority obesity here? Large tumors often do not produce any externally visible bulge, they often displace or partially crush internal organs.
My older brother had a football sized tumor on his thyroid gland that did not noticeably change his outward appearance.
The surgeon that removed it wrote a paper on the tumor because of its size. Sadly the tumors removal did not cure my brother’s migraine headaches.
23 posted on
02/12/2015 8:25:05 PM PST by
Pontiac
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To: Pontiac
Large tumors often do not produce any externally visible bulge, they often displace or partially crush internal organs. Interesting. I've often wondered how someone could not notice a basketball-sized tumor, for example.
24 posted on
02/13/2015 3:00:26 AM PST by
Tax-chick
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To: Pontiac
“My older brother had a football sized tumor on his thyroid gland that did not noticeably change his outward appearance.”
The thyroid gland is in the neck. I would think a football-sized tumor would show somewhere. Hope he’s okay though.
30 posted on
02/13/2015 5:32:22 AM PST by
PLMerite
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