Chest wall lipoma mimicking intrathoracic mass: Imaging with surgical correlation
Lipoma is the most frequent benign soft-tissue tumor. It originates from fat cells. According to position, it is distinguished in superficial, typically subcutaneous lipoma, or deep, such as intramuscular lipoma. This latter form is infrequently and may resemble well-differentiated liposarcoma. For...
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| author | Nicolò Schicchi, MD Michela Tiberi, MD Marco Fogante, MD Marco Andolfi, MD Andrea Giovagnoni, Prof. Majed Refai, MD |
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| description | Lipoma is the most frequent benign soft-tissue tumor. It originates from fat cells. According to position, it is distinguished in superficial, typically subcutaneous lipoma, or deep, such as intramuscular lipoma. This latter form is infrequently and may resemble well-differentiated liposarcoma. For this reason, early radiological detection and characterization are necessary to obtain a wide complete resection and histopathologic evaluation to differentiate benign from malign lesions. We report an extremely rare case of an intrathoracic intramuscular lipoma of the chest wall detect and characterize with chest X-ray and computed tomography examinations, resected with thoracoscopic intervention and confirmed with histopathologic analysis. Keywords: Intramuscular lipoma, Intrathoracic lipoma, Radiologic detection, Thoracoscopic resection |
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| spelling | doaj.art-21796e89bd2d47ea9cf22bb7318b908b2022-12-21T23:56:00ZengElsevierRadiology Case Reports1930-04332019-08-01148956961Chest wall lipoma mimicking intrathoracic mass: Imaging with surgical correlationNicolò Schicchi, MD0Michela Tiberi, MD1Marco Fogante, MD2Marco Andolfi, MD3Andrea Giovagnoni, Prof.4Majed Refai, MD5Radiology Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti, Via Conca 71, Ancona 60126, ItalyThoracic Surgery Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti, Via Conca 71, Ancona 60126, ItalyRadiology Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti, Via Conca 71, Ancona 60126, Italy; Corresponding author.Thoracic Surgery Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti, Via Conca 71, Ancona 60126, ItalyRadiology Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti, Via Conca 71, Ancona 60126, ItalyThoracic Surgery Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti, Via Conca 71, Ancona 60126, ItalyLipoma is the most frequent benign soft-tissue tumor. It originates from fat cells. According to position, it is distinguished in superficial, typically subcutaneous lipoma, or deep, such as intramuscular lipoma. This latter form is infrequently and may resemble well-differentiated liposarcoma. For this reason, early radiological detection and characterization are necessary to obtain a wide complete resection and histopathologic evaluation to differentiate benign from malign lesions. We report an extremely rare case of an intrathoracic intramuscular lipoma of the chest wall detect and characterize with chest X-ray and computed tomography examinations, resected with thoracoscopic intervention and confirmed with histopathologic analysis. Keywords: Intramuscular lipoma, Intrathoracic lipoma, Radiologic detection, Thoracoscopic resectionhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043319301803 |
| spellingShingle | Nicolò Schicchi, MD Michela Tiberi, MD Marco Fogante, MD Marco Andolfi, MD Andrea Giovagnoni, Prof. Majed Refai, MD Chest wall lipoma mimicking intrathoracic mass: Imaging with surgical correlation Radiology Case Reports |
| title | Chest wall lipoma mimicking intrathoracic mass: Imaging with surgical correlation |
| title_full | Chest wall lipoma mimicking intrathoracic mass: Imaging with surgical correlation |
| title_fullStr | Chest wall lipoma mimicking intrathoracic mass: Imaging with surgical correlation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Chest wall lipoma mimicking intrathoracic mass: Imaging with surgical correlation |
| title_short | Chest wall lipoma mimicking intrathoracic mass: Imaging with surgical correlation |
| title_sort | chest wall lipoma mimicking intrathoracic mass imaging with surgical correlation |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043319301803 |
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