title: Congenital perineal lipoma presenting as ambiguous genitalia.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Congenital perineal lipoma is extremely rare and may lead to a misdiagnosis of ambiguous genitalia.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report on two girls referred to our service for ambiguous genitalia. Patient 1 (17 days old) and patient 2 (2 months old) had unremarkable gestational and perinatal histories. Both had normal female external genitalia and a 46,XX karyotype. Patient 1 had a polypoid, protruding 3.0 x 2.0 x 1.5-cm phallic-like mass arising at the inferior border of the left labium majora, and patient 2 had a similar mass of 1.5 x 1.5 x 1.0 cm at the same site and an imperforate anus. In both cases the mass was removed and found to be a lipoma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To our knowledge, perineal lipoma has been reported only in eleven girls, nine of them with associated anorectal malformation. Migration and fusion of the labioscrotal folds and formation of the urorectal septum are simultaneous developmental events occurring in the same region, which may explain the association of perineal lipoma and anorectal malformations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, State University of Campinas, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil. gilguer@fcm.unicam.br
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guerra-Junior
authors.forename: A M E
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Aun
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Miranda
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Beraldo
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Guimaraes Moraes
authors.forename: M T M
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Baptista
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Marques-de-Faria
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Maciel-Guerra
mesh_terms: D001006:Anus, Imperforate / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005836:Genitalia, Female / Q000196:embryology; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007621:Karyotyping; D008067:Lipoma / Q000151:congenital*; D010502:Perineum