This is a case of a large pedunculated lipofibroma on the left axilla in a 36-year-old woman. The lesion was excised completely with no recurrence after one year of follow-up. A new name for this rare entity is proposed to be more inclusive of all lesions of pedunculated lipofibroma and to differentiate it from another entity called fibrolipoma.
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Cureus
May 2024
General Surgery, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Wardha, IND.
Lipomas are common benign soft tissue tumors, typically presenting as painless, slow-growing masses of mature adipose tissue. However, their occurrence as pedunculated lesions in the perianal region is rare. We present a case of a 70-year-old male with a 20-year history of a painless, cosmetically concerning mass in the perianal region.
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September 2023
Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
This is a case of a large pedunculated lipofibroma on the left axilla in a 36-year-old woman. The lesion was excised completely with no recurrence after one year of follow-up. A new name for this rare entity is proposed to be more inclusive of all lesions of pedunculated lipofibroma and to differentiate it from another entity called fibrolipoma.
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May 2023
Department of Dermatology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan.
We present a rare phenomenon of a soft tumor hanging on the woman's left upper arm that underwent necrosis from the distal aspect during chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer. The benign tumor, pedunculated lipofibroma, originally had normal color for 10 years and then became necrotic when she was treated with gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel. Necrosis stopped in conjunction with chemotherapy cessation.
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March 2023
Department of General Surgery, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, P O Box 3010, Moshi, Tanzania.
Pedunculated lipofibroma is a rare form of nevus lipomatous cutaneous superficialis. They are usually solitary lesions found around the thighs, buttocks and trunk; thought to have a predilection for pressure areas. There are two types of lipofibromas; sessile or pedunculated.
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July 2022
Department of Pathology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
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