Progressively enlarging pericardial lipoma in a child.
Mediastinal lipomas are slowly growing tumours. Only very few cases have been reported in children. None of these included a rapidly enlarging lipoma. We present an 8-year-old severely adipose girl with an incidentally diagnosed mediastinal lipoma that showed rapid enlargement within 7 weeks.
Department of Paediatric Radiology, Institute of Radiodiagnostics, University of Wuerzburg, Josef-Schneider-Strasse 2, 97080 Wuerzburg, Germany.
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Trusen
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Beissert
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Schultz
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Ergezinger
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Marx
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Darge
D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D011859:Radiography; D014463:Ultrasonography