Lipoma

external

• Causes

  • Dercum disease
  • Cowden disease
  • MEN I
  • Bannayan-Zonana syndrome
  • Gardener's syndrome

• Effects

  • Face lump

• Parents

  • Benign neoplasm

• Treatments

  • Excision

• Description

  • "Commonest soft tissue tumor. Very slow-growing . Adipose tissue enclosed by thin
  • fibrous capsule. Location : - Subcutaneous (commonest) - Intramuscular/ Submuscular - Retroperitoneal - can grow to giant sizes - Gastrointestinal - submuosal tumors-obstruction/bleeding - Extradural Spinal - cord compression Hereditary Lipomatosis - multiple lipomas . Dercums disease- multiple painful lipomas. Clinically: - Lobulated -Slippery edge - Pseudoflctuant Don�t need treatment - usually removed for cosmetic reasons Malignant change to liposarcomas very rare. "