Rare in occurrence, the following case of intrapulmonary lipoma is only the fifth known case in a female patient reported in the literature. Importantly, the incorporation of this lesion into the differential diagnosis during frozen section of a predominantly adipocytic lesion limited the extent of surgical intervention and provided the patient with an optimal standard of care.
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