Computed tomography imaging of subpleural lipoma in two men: two case reports

INTRODUCTION: Subpleural lipomas are very rare pleural lesions and are often discovered incidentally in asymptomatic patients on conventional radiographs. CASE PRESENTATIONS: We report two cases of subpleural lipomas and describe their imaging characteristics on chest radiographs and computed tomogr...

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Autores principales: Karlo, Christoph A, Stolzmann, Paul, Frauenfelder, Thomas, Donati, Olivio F, Leschka, Sebastian
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000416/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21108781
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-380
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author Karlo, Christoph A
Stolzmann, Paul
Frauenfelder, Thomas
Donati, Olivio F
Leschka, Sebastian
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Stolzmann, Paul
Frauenfelder, Thomas
Donati, Olivio F
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description INTRODUCTION: Subpleural lipomas are very rare pleural lesions and are often discovered incidentally in asymptomatic patients on conventional radiographs. CASE PRESENTATIONS: We report two cases of subpleural lipomas and describe their imaging characteristics on chest radiographs and computed tomography. We describe the cases of two Caucasian men, aged 77 and 62 years old. CONCLUSIONS: For non-invasive diagnostic investigation, computed tomography enables the identification and quantification of these tumors due to their characteristic fat attenuation.
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spelling pubmed-30004162010-12-10 Computed tomography imaging of subpleural lipoma in two men: two case reports Karlo, Christoph A Stolzmann, Paul Frauenfelder, Thomas Donati, Olivio F Leschka, Sebastian J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Subpleural lipomas are very rare pleural lesions and are often discovered incidentally in asymptomatic patients on conventional radiographs. CASE PRESENTATIONS: We report two cases of subpleural lipomas and describe their imaging characteristics on chest radiographs and computed tomography. We describe the cases of two Caucasian men, aged 77 and 62 years old. CONCLUSIONS: For non-invasive diagnostic investigation, computed tomography enables the identification and quantification of these tumors due to their characteristic fat attenuation. BioMed Central 2010-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3000416/ /pubmed/21108781 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-380 Text en Copyright ©2010 Karlo et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Karlo, Christoph A
Stolzmann, Paul
Frauenfelder, Thomas
Donati, Olivio F
Leschka, Sebastian
Computed tomography imaging of subpleural lipoma in two men: two case reports
title Computed tomography imaging of subpleural lipoma in two men: two case reports
title_full Computed tomography imaging of subpleural lipoma in two men: two case reports
title_fullStr Computed tomography imaging of subpleural lipoma in two men: two case reports
title_full_unstemmed Computed tomography imaging of subpleural lipoma in two men: two case reports
title_short Computed tomography imaging of subpleural lipoma in two men: two case reports
title_sort computed tomography imaging of subpleural lipoma in two men: two case reports
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000416/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21108781
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-380
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