Painful Marble Sized Lump On Neck

A painful pea sized red lump.

Painful marble sized lump on neck. Most of us dealing with these know nothing much about lumps on the neck. Thyromegaly is a disorder of the thyroid gland when it becomes larger than its normal size. Epidermoid cysts can also form when hair follicles. Sometimes lymph nodes swell when there is an infection nearby.

A lump under the chin is a bump mass or swollen area that appears under the chin along the jawline or on the front part of the neck. Most neck lumps are benign but cancer is a possible cause. For adults the chance that a neck lump is cancerous increases after the age of 50 according to the cleveland clinic. Bumps that are cancerous are typically large hard painless to the touch and appear spontaneously.

Symptoms of a boil include. A tender lump that is about the size of a marble and moves slightly when a person touches it may be a swollen lymph node. A lump in the neck can be hard or soft tender or non tender. The condition is commonly known as the disease called goiter.

Also as we age we are more prone to getting a goiter. The mass will grow in size steadily over the weeks and months. In rare cases an unexplained lump bump or swelling can be a sign of a more serious issue beneath the skin. A protrusion or an elevated region of flesh under the skin can be termed as a lump in the neck.

If it looks like a length of rope on one side of your neck you could have jugular vein distress. An epidermoid cysts are small round lumps under your skin. You may also develop a lump on your neck from injuries. That can be caused by heart failure pulmonary hypertension an infection or heart valve stenosis.

Lumps can be located in or under the skin as in a sebaceous cyst cystic acne or lipoma. Injury or torticollis can cause a lump in your neck muscles which can protrude outside as enlarged lymph nodes. A lipoma is a benign fatty growth. An increase in size over a few days.

A lump on the neck can be described as a bump swelling or simply a lump that may or may not be movable and painful. In some cases more than one lump may develop. These are often confused with a swelling in the neck.