Giant Lipoma of Posterior Neck with Bleeding Decubitus Ulcer: A Rare Entity

Giant lipomas are benign soft tissue tumours. They are found relatively rarely on the posterior part of the neck. Bleeding pressure ulcer in this giant tumour is a rare presentation. Surgical interventions in these tumours are very challenging because, sometimes, extension to the spinal cord and mal...

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Autores principales: Verma, Satyajeet, Varma, Manish, Kala, Sanjay, Singh, RK
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21031074
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2077.69027
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author Verma, Satyajeet
Varma, Manish
Kala, Sanjay
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description Giant lipomas are benign soft tissue tumours. They are found relatively rarely on the posterior part of the neck. Bleeding pressure ulcer in this giant tumour is a rare presentation. Surgical interventions in these tumours are very challenging because, sometimes, extension to the spinal cord and malignant change may occur, especially in old age. Knowledge of the anatomy and meticulous surgical techniques are needed for such giant lipomas.
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spelling pubmed-29569542010-10-28 Giant Lipoma of Posterior Neck with Bleeding Decubitus Ulcer: A Rare Entity Verma, Satyajeet Varma, Manish Kala, Sanjay Singh, RK J Cutan Aesthet Surg Case Report Giant lipomas are benign soft tissue tumours. They are found relatively rarely on the posterior part of the neck. Bleeding pressure ulcer in this giant tumour is a rare presentation. Surgical interventions in these tumours are very challenging because, sometimes, extension to the spinal cord and malignant change may occur, especially in old age. Knowledge of the anatomy and meticulous surgical techniques are needed for such giant lipomas. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2956954/ /pubmed/21031074 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2077.69027 Text en © Journal of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Verma, Satyajeet
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Kala, Sanjay
Singh, RK
Giant Lipoma of Posterior Neck with Bleeding Decubitus Ulcer: A Rare Entity
title Giant Lipoma of Posterior Neck with Bleeding Decubitus Ulcer: A Rare Entity
title_full Giant Lipoma of Posterior Neck with Bleeding Decubitus Ulcer: A Rare Entity
title_fullStr Giant Lipoma of Posterior Neck with Bleeding Decubitus Ulcer: A Rare Entity
title_full_unstemmed Giant Lipoma of Posterior Neck with Bleeding Decubitus Ulcer: A Rare Entity
title_short Giant Lipoma of Posterior Neck with Bleeding Decubitus Ulcer: A Rare Entity
title_sort giant lipoma of posterior neck with bleeding decubitus ulcer: a rare entity
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21031074
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2077.69027
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