Giant gluteal lipoma surgical management

Surgical treatment of lipomas is typically only considered when they are painful or unsightly. We present the case of a massive hip lipoma; with this extreme case, we show that the global prolongation of life expectancy can lead to other indications of removal.

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Autores principales: Litchinko, Alexis, Cherbanyk, Floryn, Menth, Markus, Egger, Bernhard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
Materias:
Rare Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6700553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31413054
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2019-229842
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author Litchinko, Alexis
Cherbanyk, Floryn
Menth, Markus
Egger, Bernhard
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spelling pubmed-67005532019-08-29 Giant gluteal lipoma surgical management Litchinko, Alexis Cherbanyk, Floryn Menth, Markus Egger, Bernhard BMJ Case Rep Rare Disease Surgical treatment of lipomas is typically only considered when they are painful or unsightly. We present the case of a massive hip lipoma; with this extreme case, we show that the global prolongation of life expectancy can lead to other indications of removal. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6700553/ /pubmed/31413054 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2019-229842 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Litchinko, Alexis
Cherbanyk, Floryn
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Egger, Bernhard
Giant gluteal lipoma surgical management
title Giant gluteal lipoma surgical management
title_full Giant gluteal lipoma surgical management
title_fullStr Giant gluteal lipoma surgical management
title_full_unstemmed Giant gluteal lipoma surgical management
title_short Giant gluteal lipoma surgical management
title_sort giant gluteal lipoma surgical management
topic Rare Disease
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6700553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31413054
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