Accessory breast tissue mimicking pedunculated lipoma

Pedunculated pleural lipoma.

A 70-year-old woman was hospitalized for dyspnea and chest pain. After radiological examinations and bronchoscopy, she was diagnosed with a stage IVsmall-cell carcinoma of the lung. Collaterally, chest CT showed an hypodense pleural sessile mass, with smooth, well defined borders and homogeneous fat attenuation of approximately –100 HU; it showed no enhancement after intravenous contrast materi...

Parosteal lipoma mimicking a breast tumor.

Suyama L, Itoh A. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220770 Description Parosteal lipoma is a rare benign tumour that is composed mainly of mature adipose tissue, and is contiguous to the periosteum of the underlying bone. Most parosteal lipomas are asymptomatic, but some may present motor and/or sensory deficits. A woman was seen in our office complaining a left breast tumour. The woman f...

Accessory Breast Tissue

DESCRIPTION A 36-year-old woman presents with significant pain and swelling over the left axillary area, which she reports worsened over the last 3 years. The tenderness becomes more prominent with her menstrual cycle. The patient denies any other changes in her breast.

Cecal Giant Lipoma Mimicking Malignancy

Pedunculated liver hemangioma mimicking stomach neoplasm

Hepatic hemangiomas are the most frequently seen benign liver mass. However, exophytic hepatic hemangiomas, particularly pedunculated ones are very rare. They have various appearances that make the diagnosis difficult. We report a pedunculated hemangioma case which was misdiagnosed as gastrointestinal stromal tumor on computerized tomography scan. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed that the tu...