Published in The Pan African Medical Journal
Colo-rectal intussusception is rare in adults and is often secondary to malignant lesions, rarely benign lesions such as colonic lipomas can also be the cause. We present the case a 60-year-old man who presented to the emergency department with acute abdominal pain. On physical examination, the abdomen was distended with diffuse tenderness. CT scan...
Published in The American journal of case reports
BACKGROUND Lipomas, the most common soft tissue tumors, represent almost half of all benign mesenchymal neoplasms and are characterized by the absence of symptoms. However, if they grow in a laryngeal site, they can cause dyspnea and dysphonia which represents one of the major symptoms of benign laryngeal diseases (such as polyps or nodules); these...
Published in Journal of Radiology Case Reports
Urinary bladder lipomas are rare neoplasms. Therefore, very few of them have been reported in the literature. We present a case that illustrates the typical features that allow radiologists to diagnose this entity: a solid lesion that arises from the urinary bladder wall, showing an endophytic growth and homogeneous hypoattenuation. After its surgi...
Published in Adipocyte
Few human cell strains are suitable and readily available as in vitro adipocyte models. We used resected lipoma tissue from a patient with germline phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) haploinsufficiency to establish a preadipocyte cell strain termed LipPD1 and aimed to characterize cellular functions and signalling pathway alterations in comparis...
Published in The American Journal of Case Reports
Patient: Male, 46-year-old Final Diagnosis: Lipoma Symptoms: Discomfort Medication:— Clinical Procedure: Surgical excision Specialty: Surgery Objective: Unusual clinical course Background: Lipoma is a painless tumor derived from mesenchymal connective tissue. It manifests itself on soft tissue and is characterized by a slow and circumscribed growth...
Published in BMC Surgery
BackgroundSialolipoma is a rare tumour which may arise from both major and minor salivary glands and has recently been described as a variant of salivary gland lipomatous lesions.Case presentationWe report a 54-year-old male who presented with a 7-year history of large right anterior neck swelling. He was clinically euthyroid and had no compressive...
Published in Urology Case Reports
The adrenal lipoma is an extremely rare, benign, and non-functional tumor. We present the first case of adrenal lipoma on the African continent and the youngest patient reported to date. computed tomography (CT) scan guided diagnosis and laparoscopic adrenalectomy was performed given symptomatic and large mass. Histological examination confirmed th...
Published in International Journal of Surgery Case Reports
Introduction Limited dorsal myeloschisis (LDM) is a recently described pathological entity, characterized by a defect of the closed focal neural tube and a fibroneural pedicle connecting the cutaneous lesion to the spinal cord. Presentation of the case This case describes a 9-month-old child with a human tail and an underlying spinal dysraphism. Th...
Published in Clinical Pathology
Background: Lipomas are the most common benign soft tissue tumors in the general population. These lesions can appear on any part of the body and usually develop in the subcutaneous superficial tissue. Lipomas that show ossifying changes are very rare, representing less than 1% of the reported lipomas. They usually manifest as hard nodular lesions ...
Published in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
BackgroundA cardiac lipoma is a rare primary cardiac tumor. They are usually asymptomatic and carry a good prognosis. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMR) is the confirmatory investigation of choice.Case presentationWe present a case of left ventricular lipoma in an asymptomatic patient, which was successfully treated with surgical resection.Co...
