Bilateral lingual lipoma: a case report

Lipoma of the tongue is an uncommon benign tumor, being even more rare when there are multiple lesions. Lipoma accounts for 1-5% of all oral neoplasms. Lipoma occurs predominantly in males over the age of forty, although, in rare cases, children can be affected. Here, we report an unusual case of a...

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Autores principales: de Oliveira, Edson Martins, Alves, Carlos Augusto Ferreira, Santos-Queiroz, Adalmir Gonzaga, Elias, Fernando Melhem, de Campos, Antônio Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: São Paulo, SP: Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital Universitário 2012
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Article / Clinical Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6735549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31528567
http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2012.012
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Alves, Carlos Augusto Ferreira
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description Lipoma of the tongue is an uncommon benign tumor, being even more rare when there are multiple lesions. Lipoma accounts for 1-5% of all oral neoplasms. Lipoma occurs predominantly in males over the age of forty, although, in rare cases, children can be affected. Here, we report an unusual case of a female patient with bilateral lingual lipomas that were treated through surgical excision.
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spelling pubmed-67355492019-09-16 Bilateral lingual lipoma: a case report de Oliveira, Edson Martins Alves, Carlos Augusto Ferreira Santos-Queiroz, Adalmir Gonzaga Elias, Fernando Melhem de Campos, Antônio Carlos Autops Case Rep Article / Clinical Case Reports Lipoma of the tongue is an uncommon benign tumor, being even more rare when there are multiple lesions. Lipoma accounts for 1-5% of all oral neoplasms. Lipoma occurs predominantly in males over the age of forty, although, in rare cases, children can be affected. Here, we report an unusual case of a female patient with bilateral lingual lipomas that were treated through surgical excision. São Paulo, SP: Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital Universitário 2012-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6735549/ /pubmed/31528567 http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2012.012 Text en Copyright © 2012 Autopsy and Case Reports http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed of terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any médium provided article is properly cited.
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