Intraneural Lipoma of the Digital Nerve: A Case Report and Literature Review

Intraneural lipomas are rare soft-tissue tumors that can occur particularly within the median nerve. Even fewer cases have been reported of their occurrence within the ulnar nerve. These masses can cause compression neuropathies. In this report, we present the first documented case of an intraneural...

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Autores principales: DeSano, Jeffrey, Gardner, Preston, Hart, Justin W, Samuel, Samson, Williams, Keoni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Plastic Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7931264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33680616
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13074
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author DeSano, Jeffrey
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description Intraneural lipomas are rare soft-tissue tumors that can occur particularly within the median nerve. Even fewer cases have been reported of their occurrence within the ulnar nerve. These masses can cause compression neuropathies. In this report, we present the first documented case of an intraneural lipoma of an ulnar digital nerve.
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spelling pubmed-79312642021-03-05 Intraneural Lipoma of the Digital Nerve: A Case Report and Literature Review DeSano, Jeffrey Gardner, Preston Hart, Justin W Samuel, Samson Williams, Keoni Cureus Plastic Surgery Intraneural lipomas are rare soft-tissue tumors that can occur particularly within the median nerve. Even fewer cases have been reported of their occurrence within the ulnar nerve. These masses can cause compression neuropathies. In this report, we present the first documented case of an intraneural lipoma of an ulnar digital nerve. Cureus 2021-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7931264/ /pubmed/33680616 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13074 Text en Copyright © 2021, DeSano et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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title_fullStr Intraneural Lipoma of the Digital Nerve: A Case Report and Literature Review
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topic Plastic Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7931264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33680616
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13074
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