Intrathoracic hibernoma: a case with multimodality imaging correlation.
Hibernomas are rare heterogeneous fatty tumors arising from brown fat precursors. Intrathoracic hibernomas are extremely rare. We detail a case of pathologically proven intrathoracic hibernoma in a 67-year-old woman. Chest radiography, computed tomography, fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, and angiography are presented. A short review of the literature and discussion of imaging and histologic diagnosis of hibernomas are provided.
Little
Brent P
BP
Division of Thoracic Radiology, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA. blittle@partners.org
Fintelmann
Florian J
FJ
Mino-Kenudson
Mari
M
Lanuti
Michael
M
Shepard
Jo-Anne O
JA
Digumarthy
Subba R
SR
D000368:Aged; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed