A Massive Posterior Neck Mass: Lipoma or Something More Sinister?

Lipomas are slow-growing benign soft-tissue tumors which are typically asymptomatic and occur in approximately 1% of the population. A lipoma is considered to be of excessive size when it is greater than 10 cm in length (in any dimension) or weighs over 1000 g (Kransdorf (1995)). We describe a case...

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Autores principales: Ryan, Matthew F., Allen, Brandon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3816032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24223314
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/205936
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description Lipomas are slow-growing benign soft-tissue tumors which are typically asymptomatic and occur in approximately 1% of the population. A lipoma is considered to be of excessive size when it is greater than 10 cm in length (in any dimension) or weighs over 1000 g (Kransdorf (1995)). We describe a case of a man presenting with a giant posterior neck mass which greatly reduced the sagittal range of cervical spine. A discussion of the pathophysiology of lipomas and a literature review regarding giant lipomas versus malignancy follows.
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spelling pubmed-38160322013-11-12 A Massive Posterior Neck Mass: Lipoma or Something More Sinister? Ryan, Matthew F. Allen, Brandon Case Rep Emerg Med Case Report Lipomas are slow-growing benign soft-tissue tumors which are typically asymptomatic and occur in approximately 1% of the population. A lipoma is considered to be of excessive size when it is greater than 10 cm in length (in any dimension) or weighs over 1000 g (Kransdorf (1995)). We describe a case of a man presenting with a giant posterior neck mass which greatly reduced the sagittal range of cervical spine. A discussion of the pathophysiology of lipomas and a literature review regarding giant lipomas versus malignancy follows. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3816032/ /pubmed/24223314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/205936 Text en Copyright © 2013 M. F. Ryan and B. Allen. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24223314
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