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Knee injury that confused my doctor

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kepler.
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so after getting an MRI i went to an orthopedic surgeon. apparently i have a mass inside of my knee. its not really connected to anything, just there. well my doctor who's been practicing for over 20 years has no idea what the hell it is. he's sending me to get a biopsy and a bone screening, then is sending my MRI to some convention of doctors. its seriously fucked up. and my knee doesn't even hurt.

has anyone heard of anything like this before? its just a mass like 2 cm in diameter in the middle of my leg above my knee. i'm startin to freak out cuz they're thinking i'm gonna have to have it cut out
Aug 29 2007 7:39PM
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GatoGordo
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if you need to replace your knee, i am qualified, because i have played that knee surgery game.
Aug 29 2007 7:45PM
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willbro466
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dude you have knee cancer
Aug 29 2007 7:45PM
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SkiingNinja
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it's not a tumor!!!
-arnold
Aug 29 2007 7:47PM
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dave44
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you'll never be able to ski again.
Aug 29 2007 7:47PM
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pat_in_the_hat
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my dad had something like that in his shoulder, they noticed it and took it out when he tore his rotator cuff
Aug 29 2007 7:49PM
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kepler.
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that completely alleviates any stress i had over that

o and thanks for the people saying i have a tumor or cancer. the doc said it was a possibility. assholes
Aug 29 2007 7:49PM
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General_Shredgnar
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I mean if you had a tear, its possible that a chunk of tendon or flesh just got loose and conglomerated in a less pressured area. It could be some sort of accumulation from unusual levels of minerals or protein in your body. Until they get info on it, its hard to say. Expecially since its rare.
Aug 29 2007 8:09PM
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Commonwealth
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Yea, i agree with that. Have you ever torn a ligament?
Aug 29 2007 8:11PM
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kepler.
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not to my knowlege. i've played soccer for the past 10 years and other the the minor hits and bruises i've never hurt my knee
Aug 29 2007 8:17PM
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tBatt
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hmm, i have something like that, but its in my left nipple.

everyone says its horomone shit and it lasts like a few months, but its been there for 15 months. and when i first noticed it was the day after i got the worst purple nurple of my life. im thinking maybe a muscle contusion?

whatever it is it fucking sucks.
Aug 29 2007 9:58PM
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sowstochd
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yeah its a tumor probobly. my mom just found out she has one in her stomach
Aug 29 2007 10:01PM
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miker92
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pics or bullshit. there are those pictures on your camera that i took of it.. that might be entertaining
Aug 29 2007 10:10PM
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tBatt
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you say shit about it every day. and constantly insist on squeezing it

i think we all know its true.
Aug 29 2007 10:13PM
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skiierman
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I'm very experienced in this field...

you've got cancer. I'm sorry.
Aug 29 2007 10:17PM
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Pirruccio
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yea and your a post whore
Aug 29 2007 11:03PM
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KEVTRON
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your a fuckin idiot.

Aug 30 2007 12:45AM
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skierdudeguy
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me too. we can tag-team his knee thing.
Aug 30 2007 12:53AM
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liukangkid
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you have a nipple rock...retard
Aug 30 2007 12:54AM
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eyes.a.fire
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me too
Aug 30 2007 1:27AM
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sdfjklioeur
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im not, but ill take a whack at it
Aug 30 2007 1:29AM
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caucasian_chad
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doctors are stupid my mom has had 2 injuries that took like 6 doctors to figure out
Aug 30 2007 1:29AM
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Shadows
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humans are pretty complex machines. although i do somewhat agree a good portion of doctors are uneducated.
Aug 30 2007 1:41AM
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solitaryman
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lulz
Aug 30 2007 3:31AM
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Microcosm
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bahahahha, me too!
and ive had this weird little bump on my neck for at least 5 yrs now. I went to the doctor about it and he said it was some kind of gland and it's nothing to worry about.
Aug 30 2007 9:40AM
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mski
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wait, why did you get an MRI anyways? those are expensive and not done for kicks. Also its proibably just a calcium deposite.
Aug 30 2007 9:47AM
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kepler.
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i went for a regular physical and he told me to get one. i don't think its costing us much because we have good insurance through the federal government.

well i'll find out in two weeks, thats the earliest i can get in for an appointment for a biopsy
Aug 30 2007 9:53AM
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Commonwealth
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good luck, man.


hopefully its nothing big and you will be shreddin your midwest pow by december!
Aug 30 2007 10:06AM
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sowstochd
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as my friend would say.


takes off his glasses and puts it to his lips* my god, its cancer
Aug 30 2007 1:30PM
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michelle
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Good luck, man. Hopefully it turns out to be basically nothing
Aug 30 2007 1:34PM
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pbandj
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i'm just thinking that it's some scar tissue, you said you play soccer and bruises eventually add up, but it could be a lot worse, good luck
Aug 30 2007 1:36PM
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anxju
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get dr gregory house
Aug 30 2007 1:48PM
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hael
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hopefully it'll be fine, knees are pretty confusing things, and especially if you're a soccer player, they're easy to mess up.

doctors are so contradictory though. two years ago, i had pertussis and it took them so long to get their shit together.

in september i had a cough, and didn't really think about it, because i'm always sick. by halloween, it was a really disturbing cough, so i went to a doctor, and he gave me some medicine thinking it was a sinus infection. it didn't help at all, after a month or two, going to the doctor like every two weeks, he said it was athsma, and sent me to a specialist. by the time i saw the specialist, i was coming in late to school at least three times a week, and missing a lot of school becasue i felt so shitty.

when i saw the athsma specialist, in january or february he told me that there was absolutely no way this was athsma, and did some tests. it turns out that i caught whooping cough in september, and the only way medicine can help it is in the first two weeks, and people usually think it's a cold then. after that, you just wait it out.

i ended up being sick for more than six months, with a horrendous cough. whenever i did any running, i would start to cough until i puked. it probably didn't help that i kept skiing the whole time...but i didn't want to stay home.
Aug 30 2007 2:37PM
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RudyGarmisch
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And I'm sure you in all your infinite wisdom could correctly diagnose her. Doctors arent magicians, we're still limited by the technology and tools we have available. And you see 6 or 7 doctors on average for anything in a hospital anyways, specialists, you know?
Aug 30 2007 2:57PM
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RudyGarmisch
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And Ben, what did the doctor exactly say about it? It showed up on MRI, right? Cartilaginous, osteopathic? It could just also be a benign neuroma (small cyst in the peripheral nerve)... but it really depends on the MRI, thats just a random guess.
Aug 30 2007 2:59PM
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Crackaghan
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lol ha
Aug 30 2007 3:13PM
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kepler.
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i'm not anywhere near able to figure this medical stuff out, but here are the findings from the doctors who looked at the MRI

FINDINGS:

There is a fairly well defined "mass" in the retrofemoral soft tissues just behid the distal femur and just anterior to the left superficial femoral artery and vein. It measures approximately 2.3 cm in length by 1.2 cm in width by 1 cm in AP diameter. It has an oval configuration and its epicenter is in the retrofemoral fat. The lesion is isointense with muscle on T1 and hyperintense on T2 and STIR imaging. It undergoes diffuse circumferential and near complete enhancement following contrast administration. It is clearly separate from the underlying bone as well from the adjacent left common femoral artery and vein. It does not clearly demonstrate a " target" sign.

All other findings previously described within the knee are unchanged

IMPRESSION:

Today's Examinations confirms the presence of an enhancing soft tissue "mass" in the fat between the posterior distal left femur and the left femoral artery and vein. Although its signal characteristics are associated with benign or malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, i believe that this lesion is separate from the sciatic nerve or its major branches in this region. Other lesions that demonstrate similar signal characteristics would include malignant fibrous histiocytoma and liposarcoma. THis does not represent a "simple" cyst and i believe requires definitive histologic diagnosis by excision

you can see why i'm kind of freaking out here after reading the paragraph above written by the doctor
Aug 30 2007 5:57PM
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