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Lump near tonsil
I have attached the images. There is a polyp type structure below the right tonsil. I have attached the picture. The whitish thing is the ear bud ignore it. Please tell what it is? I sometimes feel it while swallowing. Is it something malignant? I have worried too much. My age is 22.
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Dr. Akanksha Saxena
ENT/ Otorhinolaryngologist
14 yrs exp
Gurgaon
Tonsillar malignancy is diagnosed primarily my clinical examination (feeling the tonsil) and biopsy. Picture shows a small polyp like growth which may very well be declared normal after examination.
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Don’t try to touch or scratch it. May bleed.
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