I found a hard mass the size of a golf ball located on the left side, middle of my back. My doctor referred me to a surgeon, he removed the mass and the surrounding tissue (he mentioned there was scar tissue around it also). The surgeon just called me and informed me that the mass was a lymph node, and the pathologist will have to conduct more extensive tests. I've "googled" lymph nodes, and I have yet to find anything relating to a dislodged, dislocated, unattached lymph node. I am 45, I had breast reduction surgery 2 years ago. I am a Registered Nurse, and like my doctor, I have never heard of such a problem. Please, if you read this- help inform me.

I am sure that as a registered nurse you have heard of people having physical anomalies in their anatomy that do not harm anything but are features that simply make one go "hmmmm" If this were a stray lymph node, it might could conceiveably be enlarging due to friction of lying on your back and/or containing fluids that used to be handled by breast tissue and some how were rerouted by the surgery. Hopefully it is just one more problem that has been eliminated.