[Deep Venous Thrombosis as the First Manifestation of Hibernoma - Clinical Case].

Rev Port Cir Cardiotorac Vasc

Serviço de Anatomia Patológica, Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal.

Published: September 2019

We present a 36 year-old female patient with a popliteo-femoral deep vein thrombosis whose further workup revealed a thigh tumor later diagnosed as hibernoma. Hibernoma is a very rare benign tumor stemming from vestigial remnants of fetal brown adipose cells, usually disclosed as a slow and painless growing, mass. It is impossible to distinguish it on clinical grounds from the more aggressive and ominous liposarcoma.

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