title: Chest wall giant lipoma with a thirty-year history.
abstract: Benign chest wall tumours are very uncommon and chest wall lipomas are rarely reported in literature. We report herein a case of a 68-year old man who developed a giant, symptomless mass of the chest wall. A chest computed tomography scan evidenced a solid neoplasm measuring 27 cm in its major axis. A radical excision was performed and the histology was consistent with lipoma. To our knowledge, this is the first case reporting a giant lipoma of the chest wall with a thirty-year history.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sacred Heart Catholic University, Rome, Italy. gio.leuzzi@yahoo.it
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Leuzzi
authors.forename: Alfredo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cesario
authors.forename: Anna Mariantonia
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Parisi
authors.forename: Pierluigi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Granone
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures; D035441:Thoracic Wall / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D047368:Tumor Burden