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Atlas of dermatopathology
Josef Feit, Hana Jedličková, Günter Burg, Luděk Matyska, Spasoje Radovanovic et al.
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+ Introduction
+ Literature
+ Support
+ Skin biopsy
+ Non-tumorous skin diseases
+ Skin tumors
+ Cysts of the skin and subcutis
+ Soft tissue lesions
+ Some lesions of the oral cavity
+ Dermatovenerology
+ Collection of histological slides by prof. Günter Burg
+ Collection of histological slides by prof. Werner Kempf
+ Collection of histological slides of dr. Ram Chandra Adhikari
Common lipoma
Clinical signs
  • location: arms, shoulders, back, lower extremities
  • solitary or multiple
  • elastic nodules of the subcutis
  • rarely symmetric diffuse hyperplasia of the fat (lipomatosis)
  • sometimes painful
Pictures

Further examples of lipoma:

Histology

Lipoma is a benign tumor of the mature fat. Its structure corresponds to the fat, but has fine capsule. Its cells are usually slightly larger than normal adipocytes.

Lipoma (4802)