Fibrolipomatous hamartoma of the median nerve are usually located distally in the forearm and may have characteristic features on MR imaging. Here we report a patient with an extensive fibrolipomatous hamartoma at an unusual location proximally in the arm, where a preoperative MR imaging was pathognomonic and diagnosis was verified by an incisional biopsy. We suggest that MRI should be performe...

Neural fibrolipomatous hamartoma is a rare benign tumour commonly involving the median nerve. Other less frequently involved nerves include the ulnar, radial, brachial plexus, superficial peroneal nerve, inferior calcaneal nerve and median plantar nerve. Involvement of sural nerve has not been reported in the available literature so far. A three-year-old female child presented with a painless s...

fibrolipomatous hamartoma of nerve (neural fibrolipoma) is a tumor-like lipomatous process principally involving young persons. the median nerve is most commonly affected. the lesion is characterized by a soft slowly growing mass surrounding and infiltrating major nerves and their branches. it may cause symptoms of compression neuropathy and is associated with macrodactyly in one third of cases...

, 1202–1203 © 2005 The International Society of Dermatology 1202 The patients are four unrelated children, one boy and three girls, aged between 3 and 7 months. All the patients were born at term, had normal postnatal development, and were in good general health. Each child presented from birth with a single plantar nodule, between 0.5 and 1.5 cm in diameter, bilaterally and symmetrically local...

Precalcaneal congenital fibrolipomatous hamartomas (PCFHs) are characterized clinically by the presence of unilateral or bilateral, asymptomatic nodules in the medial precalcaneal plantar region of the heel. They are skin colored and usually painless nodules. In most patients, the lesions appear within the first few months of life, but they may also be present at birth. Generally PCFHs are beni...

Fibrolipomatous hamartomas are rare benign nerve tumors caused by a proliferation of fibroadipose tissue within the perineurium and endoneurium peripheral nerves. They often present during first second decades life with progressive neuritic symptoms regularly associated territory overgrowth, or macrodactyly, as well development exostoses. These missed clinical exam due to lack recognition sympt...

A case of fibrolipomatous hamartoma of the median nerve is presented. The operative findings were characteristic. The diagnosis should be confirmed by histological examination of a biopsy from an involved palmar cutaneous branch, and treatment should be limited to decompression of the ligament or fascia over the involved area.

Neural fibrolipoma, also known as fibrolipomatous hamartoma of the nerve, is a benign and rare nerve sheath tumor that involves the upper and lower extremities; mainly the digits of the hand and foot. It does not become symptomatic until it has been present for many years and its symptomatology stems from compression of the nerve rather than intraneural involvement by the tumor [1]. A fibrolipo...