Hygroma

Hygroma (hygroma, "bump") is a small sac of synovial fluid protruding above the skin surface. It can occur in anyone, often without any particular reason, hygroma is easily treated, just trust your doctor.

ICD10 code

Hygroma has the following ICD10 code: M 71.3

Causes of hygroma

Causes: joint trauma, joint stress, consequences of joint surgery. The damaged tissue forms a weak spot in the joint capsule. When the load is limited, the growth of the "bump" may stop.

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Symptoms of hygroma

At the early stages it does not manifest itself in any way, later – pain during loads in the surrounding tissues. Hygroma is a hernial sac. At first, swelling of the skin begins. Later, pain occurs during loads.

A hygroma is a benign formation, it cannot degenerate into cancer. But it can grow and compress the surrounding vessels, causing a dull aching pain.

Hygroma on the hand

Hygroma on the hand most often occurs in seamstresses and typists. Their hands are overloaded for a long time. It is treated with electrophoresis, heat therapy or surgery. When doing physical exercises, be sure to use elastic bandages, distribute the load evenly.

A hygroma of the hand is a thickening on the back of the hand. It can occur due to injury or sports. It often occurs in musicians.

Sometimes it is removed with a laser or excised. Before going to bed, lubricate the "bump" with iodine. You can apply a cake of aloe and honey to the tumor.

Wrist hygroma is a capsule with serous contents. It is typical for embroiderers and seamstresses. At first, it is unnoticeable and does not cause pain. Its size is 3-6 cm. It occurs due to physical exertion, small monotonous work or untreated injury.

A wrist hygroma is a benign formation consisting of a capsule with an admixture of fibrin. The main symptom is a round neoplasm under the skin up to 6 cm in size. At first there is no pain, but over time it can compress the vessels and make it difficult for the hand to function. Surgery to remove the "bump" is resorted to if severe pain syndrome develops.

Elbow hygroma occurs due to mechanical damage. There are many ways to treat this condition: physical therapy, surgical excision and traditional medicine.

Among the folk medicine methods that you can use at home, it is worth highlighting compresses. A warming compress promotes its resorption. Compresses are made from honey, cabbage, aloe leaves, wormwood before bed, 1 time per day. Take 6 ficus leaves, pour 500 ml of kerosene, insist for a week and strain. Put a gauze bandage soaked in sunflower oil, and on top of it a napkin soaked in tincture.

Hygroma on the leg

A hygroma on the leg is most often localized in the ankle area. The nerves and vessels in this type of "bump" are easily compressed by shoes. Conservative treatment usually consists of crushing it: the contents of the cystic formation are simply pressed into the skin. The procedure is painful, and relapses are possible. Puncture is also possible: puncturing the seal and pumping out the contents. Finally, it can be removed by excision along with the capsule.

A foot hygroma is a benign formation caused by heavy loads. It can be treated conservatively - with a puncture, physiotherapy or surgically - by excision. The operation is performed if it grows quickly, fester, swells and hurts a lot.

A knee joint hygroma occurs in adults and children. The cause of a knee joint "lump" may be constant tension caused by increased sports loads or injury. It may occur in people who spend the whole day on their feet. There may be a connection with an inflammatory process in the joint. The seal is most often the diameter of a walnut or tangerine. Hygroma can be single-chambered and multi-chambered. A single-chambered hygroma may disappear after a course of massage or physiotherapy (warming up, mud applications). Multi-chambered hygroma is treated with surgery. The stitches are removed on the 7th day. Conservative treatment of a multi-chambered neoplasm of the hygroma type can cause relapses, so it is rarely used.

To treat a "bump" in the knee joint using folk methods, you can try the following remedies: take wormwood herb and apply it to the sore spot overnight.

Have you ever heard of a lump in the knee joint area – a shin hygroma? It is hard to the touch and often occurs at a young age. What is its cause?

The ends of the bones are surrounded by capsules with synovial fluid. Synovial fluid is also called synovial, and the capsule is called the synovial membrane of the joint. When the joint is subjected to the same type of physical load, part of the joint capsule bulges and becomes separated from the joint.

Externally, a hygroma of the shin is a slightly mobile ball with serous contents.

Conservative treatment methods: mud applications, electrophoresis, puncture of the capsule with the introduction of a medicinal product.

Surgical treatment with a scalpel - excision of it together with the membrane. The patient is discharged home after a day.

Traditional methods:

1. Tincture of ficus leaves on kerosene. They soak a cloth with it and apply compresses until the "bump" dissolves.
2. Mix honey, crushed aloe leaves and add flour. Roll out a flat cake and apply to the area that bothers you.
3. Apply cabbage leaves until it disappears completely.
4. Mix white and red clay in equal proportions and apply once a day.

Hygroma of the heel looks like a slightly mobile lump, which at first does not cause concern. But as the "lump" grows, the skin on the heel begins to peel, and difficulties arise when walking.

In the early stages it is treated with electrophoresis.

A copper coin can also be applied to a cystic formation of this kind and the bandage can be tied with a bandage for 3 days. This method is not very convenient for the heel - the coin will interfere with walking.

It is useful to make a compress from a raw egg mixed with vinegar.

Physalis fruits are finely chopped and applied as a compress.

If folk methods do not help, the "bumps" are pumped out with a long needle and a bandage is applied.

However, the most reliable method is the complete removal of the hygroma-type neoplasm along with the capsule.

Hygroma in a child

A hygroma in a child is a dense, round, benign formation that occurs near a joint. In children, they are most often caused by injuries.

Treatment by puncture: the contents of the "lump" are evacuated with a thick needle. The method is effective in 60%, relapses are possible. Therefore, with cystic formations of this kind of significant size, they are removed with a scalpel.

Hygroma of the neck

Neck hygroma is an anomaly in the structure of the fetal lymphatic system. The cystic form is often combined with congenital heart defects. When a cystic form of fetal neoplasm is detected, prenatal karyotyping is mandatory.

It can appear immediately after birth. In this case, the operation is performed immediately, especially if the size of the "lump" is large and, being located on the neck, it threatens the life of the child.

Hygroma of the tendon

Tendon hygroma is a benign cystic formation in the area of tendon sheaths. Causes of formation:

1. Injuries.
2. Constant pressure.
3. Inflammatory diseases of the joints.

It cannot degenerate into cancer, but it can compress blood vessels and nerves and cause numbness. When palpated, it is defined as a ball or egg-shaped formation with clear boundaries. The capsule of the "lump" has one or more cavities.

Types:

1. Valve.
2. Mouth.
3. Isolated formation.

A small tumor can be treated with massage and physiotherapy. If conservative therapy is ineffective, surgery remains - bursectomy. During this operation, the synovial sac is cut, and the cystic formation is removed with all its membranes. The operation lasts 30-45 minutes, does not require general anesthesia. Everything heals in 7-10 days. A plaster splint is applied to relieve the joint.

Hygroma on the head

Hygroma on the head (subdural form) is an accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid resulting from a traumatic brain injury, which compresses the brain.

Subdural neoplasm of the hygroma type can be acute, subacute and chronic. A "lump" lasting 2 weeks or more is considered chronic.

MRI and CT methods are used for diagnostics.

Treatment is surgical.

A brain hygroma is an accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the temporal and parietal lobes of the brain. In adults, it most often develops after a TBI, and in children, as a complication of meningitis. Treatment is possible by puncturing its contents or surgically.

Clinically, it manifests itself as dizziness, headache, and paresis of the gaze to the side. A short-term primary loss of consciousness occurs. After the patient comes to, he experiences euphoria and an exacerbation of the sucking reflex. Psychomotor agitation occurs.

The prognosis for life is favorable if assistance is provided in a timely manner.

Consequences of hygroma

If the vessels and nerves are compressed, the limb may hurt, pull and go numb. A neoplasm of the hygroma type, if left untreated, may grow, causing a cosmetic defect. It does not degenerate into cancer. If the "bumps" are injured, their shell may rupture, and suppuration will occur.

Brain hygroma is the most dangerous in terms of consequences, as it occurs after a craniocerebral injury. In severe cases, it can cause disturbances in the functioning of the body associated with poor passage of nerve impulses to the damaged area of the brain and the accumulation of effusion in it. Mental disorders are possible.

Complications: severe periodic pain during exercise, numbness of the limb, inability to control it, purulent tendovaginitis - purulent inflammation of the joint capsule.

Relapse of hygroma is its reappearance after treatment. Most often, a relapse of the formation appears if it was treated in the old way - by crushing. It was used until the 80s. Sometimes an illiterate surgeon removes only the upper part, and the inaccessible, invisible part of the "lump" remains. Then a relapse occurs, not one, but several formations appear, which are located nearby. The operation to remove a cystic formation is actually very delicate, do not be fooled if you are told that it takes 10 minutes. For greater efficiency, with significant sizes and a large number of chambers, it is better to perform the removal under general anesthesia. Your hand will return to working order in 14 days.

A hygroma can resolve itself if the load on the joint is reduced or the joint inflammation is treated. A cystic formation of the neck, detected in a child during pregnancy, can also resolve itself, but in any case, if it is detected on ultrasound, a karyotype analysis should be done - there is a high probability of combined developmental defects.

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Diagnosis of hygroma

Diagnosis of hygroma by a competent surgeon is not difficult. If there is a suspicion of malignancy, a biopsy is done. In doubtful cases, the doctor may prescribe you an X-ray or CT scan.

Hygroma puncture is the simplest method of treatment. The surgeon makes an injection and evacuates the contents with a syringe. Then corticosteroids are introduced into the cavity to fuse the walls of the membrane of the removed cystic formation. The frequency of relapses is higher than with surgical treatment. If a relapse occurs, an operation is performed to completely excise it together with the membrane.

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Treatment of hygroma

Treatment of hygroma can be conservative and surgical. Conservative treatment involves puncturing the formation and pumping out its contents with a syringe. Surgical excision is the complete removal of the cystic formation with its membranes and contents. If the "lump" bothers you a lot, prevents you from making normal movements, you will have to resort to this method. There are also folk remedies for treating hygroma, for example, alcohol compresses. Make compresses with seventy percent alcohol and go to bed like that. Put polyethylene on top and wrap yourself up warmly. Be careful with alcohol, it can cause a burn! Do short warming sessions if you have sensitive skin.

Removal of hygroma

This is an unpleasant but necessary procedure in case of severe discomfort, pressure, which begins as a result of the growth of the "bump", numbness and severe pain. Surgical treatment is the most radical and correct in this case. Puncture cannot give such an effect.

The duration of the operation is, on average, 30 minutes. Removal can be performed with a scalpel, endoscopically or with a laser. Traces of the endoscopic operation are practically invisible.

If the cyst is large, the patient is given conduction anesthesia or general anesthesia.

How to cure hygroma without surgery?

This question is asked by many, because none of the patients really wants to go under the knife. The method that a doctor in a clinic or hospital can offer you is opening the tumor with the introduction of drugs into the hygroma membrane with a special long needle. The doctor determines whether you need surgery or whether you can get by with just a puncture.

Examples of folk remedies:

1. Rub the juice from the golden mustache leaf between your fingers and roll it over the tumor.
2. Tie a five-kopeck coin tightly to the "bump" and hold it for 4 days. First, sterilize the coin with fire.
3. Apply red clay to the sore spot, and then lubricate the cystic formation with iodine.
4. Soak your hand or foot in the leaves and flowers of the common lilac.

Conspiracy from hygroma: tear the threads from the spool with black threads and read "As this thread breaks, tears, breaks, so tear hygroma, tear yourself, do not let yourself grow. There is no place for you on the body of the slave (name), as I will not leave threads on this spool. Amen." After reading the conspiracy, scraps of thread must be put in a jar, burned and thrown away.

Prevention of hygroma

Prevention of hygroma consists of following the following measures:

1. Timely treatment until the end of all injuries.
2. Treatment of arthritis.
3. Avoid prolonged monotonous static load on the joint.

Hygroma prognosis

With timely treatment - favorable. In terms of work activity, the prognosis is relatively favorable, the limb, as a rule, continues to function 100% normally.

A hygroma is a benign tumor, you don’t have to worry about it turning into cancer, but this formation can cause you significant discomfort when it grows, making it difficult to work with your hand or walk. It is aesthetically unattractive. Given all these inconveniences, it should be removed by puncture or scalpel (laser, endoscopically).

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