Publications by authors named "Abderrahim Rafaoui"
Article Synopsis
- - Hibernoma is a rare benign tumor from brown fat that is often misidentified as liposarcoma, necessitating a biopsy for accurate diagnosis.
- - A case of a 70-year-old woman with a hibernoma in her left thigh illustrates the challenges in diagnosis, as initial imaging pointed to liposarcoma but histopathology confirmed hibernoma.
- - The case highlights the importance of including hibernoma in differential diagnoses, relying on MRI and biopsy for confirmation, and emphasizes that complete surgical excision is crucial to avoid recurrence.
Introduction And Importance: Conditions mimicking tumors within the knee, such as arborescent lipoma and synovial chondromatosis, are generally benign yet closely linked to inflammatory or degenerative joint diseases. While each condition is commonly documented individually with osteoarthritis, their concurrent presentation within the same knee is extremely rare. This case report adheres to the SCARE 2023 guidelines (Sohrabi et al.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Traumatic dislocation of the knee is a rare and severe injury, often caused by a severe trauma. Neglected knee dislocations are much more uncommon and treatment options are not clearly described.
Presentation Of Case: We reported the case of a 26-year-old man with two years neglected knee dislocation which was managed with open reduction and stabilization with external fixation and intra-articular Steinman pins for six weeks.
Introduction: Lipoma arborescens is a very rare pseudo-tumoral lesion of unknown etiology, characterized by lipomatous infiltration of subsynovial stroma, bilateral involvement is exceptional, only eight cases are reported in the literature.
Presentation Of Case: We report the very rare case of two men presented at our department with complaints of swelling of both knees and intermittent joint effusion, Surgical biopsy revealed Lipoma arborescens in both cases. Open total synovectomy was performed.