Types of Swelling
Congenital swellings are present since birth, e.g., hemangioma, meningocele, etc. Some congenital swellings may not appear since birth, but later in life, e.g., branchial cyst, dermatoid cyst, thyroglossal cyst.
Traumatic swellings develop immediately after trauma, e.g., hematoma, dislocation
Inflammatory swelling: It may be either acute or chronic variety. The presentations of acute swellings are redness, local fever, pain and impairment of function of the affected organ. The related lymph nodes will be affected and will show signs of acute lymphadenitis. Chronic inflammatory swellings will show the signs of acute inflammatory swellings, but in subdued form. In this case, edema might not occur. Such swellings can be differentiated from neoplastic swellings by the fact that neoplastic swellings never recede in size, but inflammatory swellings may show occasional diminution.
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