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Kim, Jung, and Cho: Giant Lipoma of the Hand: A Case Report
Case Report

J Korean Bone Joint Tumor Soc 2013;19(2):97-100.

Published online: 10 January 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5292/jkbjts.2013.19.2.97

Giant Lipoma of the Hand: A Case Report

Woo-Sung Kim, Yu-Hoon Jung, Nam-Ik Cho

Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital, Daejin Medical Center, Seongnam, Korea

Correspondence to: Yu-Hoon Jung Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital, Daejin Medical Center, 255-2, Seohyun-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam 463-050, Korea TEL: +82-31-779-0175 FAX: +82-31-779-0176 E-mail: osjungyh@naver.com

Received 19 September 2013       Revised 30 November 2013       Accepted 3 December 2013

Copyright © 2013 The Korean Bone and Joint Tumor Society

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Abstract

Lipomas are the commonest soft tissue tumor. However, those arsing in the hand are infrequent. Lipomas in the hand that exhibit a size of more than 5 cm call giant lipoma, these are very rare only case reports and small series of this entity have been described. We could experience a case about giant lipoma of the hand which cannot easily contact, we report a case including review of literatures.

Keywords: giant lipoma, hand

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Figure 1.
Plain radiographs demonstrate a large mass in the 1st, 2nd web space.
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Figure 2.
The MRI shows that the tumor is homogenous appearance suggestive of a benign lipoma.
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Figure 3.
Intraoperative photographs show the giant lipomatous mass of 6.8×4.8×2.5 cm.
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Figure 4.
The specimen was examined histologically, the tumor was benign lipoma.
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