title: An unusually large liver lipoma.
abstract: Liver lipoma is an extremely rare tumor. Its nature and behavior is not well known since available information is based mostly on individual case reports. This report presents a case of liver lipoma mimicking malignant liver tumor. The patient was 72-year female with 5-year history of right upper abdominal quadrant pain. Diagnostic work-up revealed a large liver tumor mass, suspicious of malignancy. However, patohistological analysis found it to be lipoma. Because of extremely low incidence of liver lipoma, especially large ones, appropriate diagnostic work-up is very important for its differentiation from malignant tumors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Split, Split, Croatia.
authors.forename: Zeljko
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Puljiz
authors.forename: Mirko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Petričević
authors.forename: Andre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bratanić
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Barišić
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Puljiz
authors.forename: Zeljka
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Karin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed