Multilocular lipoma of the left thumb of the hand: a case report

Lipoma is a benign soft tissue tumor that is mostly found in the trunk, however, lipomas of the thumb are rarely reported, around 1% of cases. We report a case of a Saudi male aged 32-year-old who presented with a progressive left thumb swelling for a long time. The aim is to add more cases to the l...

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Autores principales: Wafiq Wafa, Ahmed, Wani, Shabir, A. Alsinan, Tuqa, Alkhonizy, Sarah
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8386717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34447858
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2021.1968302
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author Wafiq Wafa, Ahmed
Wani, Shabir
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description Lipoma is a benign soft tissue tumor that is mostly found in the trunk, however, lipomas of the thumb are rarely reported, around 1% of cases. We report a case of a Saudi male aged 32-year-old who presented with a progressive left thumb swelling for a long time. The aim is to add more cases to the literature and to consider it as a differential.
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spelling pubmed-83867172021-08-25 Multilocular lipoma of the left thumb of the hand: a case report Wafiq Wafa, Ahmed Wani, Shabir A. Alsinan, Tuqa Alkhonizy, Sarah Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg Case Report Lipoma is a benign soft tissue tumor that is mostly found in the trunk, however, lipomas of the thumb are rarely reported, around 1% of cases. We report a case of a Saudi male aged 32-year-old who presented with a progressive left thumb swelling for a long time. The aim is to add more cases to the literature and to consider it as a differential. Taylor & Francis 2021-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8386717/ /pubmed/34447858 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2021.1968302 Text en © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Wafiq Wafa, Ahmed
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Multilocular lipoma of the left thumb of the hand: a case report
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title_full Multilocular lipoma of the left thumb of the hand: a case report
title_fullStr Multilocular lipoma of the left thumb of the hand: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Multilocular lipoma of the left thumb of the hand: a case report
title_short Multilocular lipoma of the left thumb of the hand: a case report
title_sort multilocular lipoma of the left thumb of the hand: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8386717/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23320885.2021.1968302
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