Giant gluteal lipoma surgical management

Giant gluteal lipoma-like liposarcoma: a case report

BACKGROUND Liposarcoma is the second most common soft tissue sarcoma in adults with a peak incidence between the 4th and 6th decade of life and slight preponderance to the male gender. It originates from multipotential primitive mesenchymal cells, rather than mature adipose tissue. CASE PRESENTATION An unusual case of a rapidly growing giant lipoma-like liposarcoma of the left gluteal and per...

Gluteal augmentation surgery: indications and surgical management.

The most common surgical techniques performed for gluteal augmentation employ the use of implants and a combination of liposuction/lipo-injection procedures. We review the major literature concerning this subject with emphasis on gluteal implants, the various indications, surgical techniques and complications are discussed and we present some of our cases. Contour reconstruction, indications su...

Cecal Giant Lipoma Mimicking Malignancy

Surgical treatment of a giant lipoma in the parotid gland.

Recently, a case of deep-lobe lipoma with enucleation was reported, but frozen-section biopsy for the confirmation of the malignancy was not done. It has been suggested that lipoma in the deeper tissues should be regarded as a well-differentiated liposarcoma and be treated with wide excision. Our experience is that of a 75-year-old woman who had a mass with fat density in the deep lobe of the r...

Case Report Giant Gluteal Lipoma: a Case Report and Review of Literature

Introduction Lipoma is one of the most common benign mesenchymal tumor which can occur in almost in all organs of the body where fat normally exists, so called as universal tumor or ubiquitous tumor. Lipomas are slow growing that rarely reach a size more than 2-3cms. Lesions larger than 5cms, so called giant lipomas are seldom found inside the muscle compressing nervous-vascular structures. The...