INTRODUCTION Intramuscular lipomas of the pectoralis major muscle are rare and may mimic malignant breast tumours. CLINICAL PICTURE A 58-year-old Chinese woman presented with a 2- year history of an enlarging left breast mass. Clinical examination revealed a palpable hard mass in the left breast. TREATMENT Standard mammographic views revealed a radiolucent mass deep in the left pectoralis m...

A 44-years-old male presented with right infraauricular swelling. It had been four months since he was aware of the mass. He had not felt any pain or tenderness. Computed tomograpy demonstrated a homogenous, regular surfaced mass located in the prestyloid and poststyloid parapharyngeal space. Its density was concordant with lipomatous tissue, so it was considered to be an infiltrating paraphary...

INTRODUCTION Lipomas are benign tumors which may appear in almost any human organ. Their diagnosis rate in the hand region is not known. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of a 63-year-old Greek Caucasian woman with a giant lipoma of the hand and palm which was not initially diagnosed. After repeated surgical decompression of the carpal tunnel the patient was referred with persisting sympt...

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...

Early pathologic reports of corpus callosal lipoma described a consistent relationship between the lipoma and the dorsal surface of the corpus callosum, particularly when the lipoma is not associated with corpus callosal agenesis. MR imaging, especially T1-weighted sagittal acquisitions, exquisitely demonstrated this anatomic relationship in three relatively asymptomatic patients. Therefore, in...

To the Editor Lipomas are common benign soft tissue neoplasms of mature adipose tissue. The peak incidence is usually in the fifth or sixth decade of life, while occurrence in children is very uncommo. Multiple presentations may occur in about 5% patients [1]. The tumors may or encapsulated may not be. In a review of more than 1000 benign tumors of adipose tissue, over 80% were ordinary lipomas...

colonic lipoma is a benign neoplasm that can lead to colonic obstruction but concomitant intussusception is rare in adults. in this case, colocolic intussusception due to a lipoma in the descending colon had occurred. by laparatomy, we diagnosed the problem , but reduction was impossible . so resection of the colon with mass was done and anastomosed. after surgery and 3 years follow up the pati...

To cite: Kumar N, Kumar G, Dembla G, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2013-008820 A 20-year-old boy having weakness and atrophy of left upper limb since childhood, presented with difficulty in walking and spasticity of all the limbs for last 4 months. It was asymmetric in onset (L>R) and progressive, with no sensory, bowel or bladder complai...