Intramuscular lipoma of the tongue: report of a rare case.
Intramuscular lipoma occurring in the tongue of a 37-year-old Japanese male in good health is reported. The lesion was composed of mature adipose tissue that infiltrated the muscle in a diffuse manner, and the entrapped muscle fibers exhibited varying degrees of atrophic change. There were no lipoblasts or atypical cells as in well-differentiated liposarcoma. Review of the literature yielded only three cases of infiltrating lipoma occurring in the tongue.
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D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D014059:Tongue / Q000473:pathology; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology