２０年以上前から右臀部下に出来た直径１０センチ以上の握り拳タイプの皮下腫瘍が最近大分大きくなり最近気になり出した。少年時代掛かっていた医師はペニシリン注射跡だろうと言っていたが、私は定年退職前後からのロード自転車運動（約２５年間くらい？）に乗り始めたのでその刺激で最近巨大化したものと思っている。それにしても最近その存在が気になり始めたので、S大成形外科で除去して貰うことにした。近隣の診療所の整形外科で紹介状を書いて貰いS大形成外科で診察した所、患部は比較的大きい皮下腫瘍なので切除後の広い患部から出る血液の排出に問題があり、短くて４日長くても１週間の入院が必要であるとの事だった。実際手術は局所麻酔下に２時間掛かり、患部の位置的に就寝姿勢に少々苦労はしたが、１週間入院の結果退院した。１０日間ほど入院させたかった主治医の意思に抵抗した結果の退院だったので、退院後も毎日患部傷口の消毒・取替えが続いた。様子から見ると今回のような大きな皮下腫瘍の除去の経験はそんなに無かったのであろう。恐らく患部の抜糸まで手術後２～３週間掛かるだろうが、その後の経過はまた述べよう。

 

 

　The fist-shaped subcutaneous tumor, more than 10 centimeters in diameter, that has been forming under the right buttock for over 20 years has recently become quite large and has started to bother me. 　The doctor I saw when I was a boy said it was probably a penicillin injection scar, but I started riding a road bicycle around the time I retired (for about 25 years?), so I think that's what stimulated my size recently. 　There is. However, recently I started to notice its existence, so I decided to have it removed by S University Plastic Surgery. 　I received a letter of introduction from the orthopedic surgeon at a nearby clinic, and was examined at S University Plastic Surgery, where it was discovered that the affected area was a relatively large subcutaneous tumor, so there was a problem in draining blood from the large affected area after excision, and it took only 4 days. 　He was told that he would need to be hospitalized for at most a week. 　The surgery actually took two hours under local anesthesia, and he had some difficulty getting into a sleeping position due to the location of the affected area, but he was discharged after being hospitalized for a week.　He was discharged after resisting the wishes of his attending physician, who wanted him to stay in the hospital for about 10 days, so the wound continued to be disinfected and replaced every day after he was discharged. 　Judging from the situation, it seems that he did not have much experience in removing large subcutaneous tumors like this one. 　It will probably take two to three weeks after the surgery to remove the stitches from the affected area, but I will tell you about the progress after that.