title: Hibernoma of the thigh: a lipoma-like variant rare tumour mimicking soft tissue sarcoma.
abstract: A 43-year-old Caucasian woman appeared with painless progressively enlarging tumour of the anterior part of the left thigh of approximately 6 months' duration. A differential imaging diagnosis of liposarcoma or large lipoma was made. An excisional biopsy was performed with complete removal of a large lobulated and encapsulated grossly ovoid mass. Frozen section diagnosis was unidentified lipomatous tumour with no evidence of malignancy. The final pathological diagnosis was lipoma-like hibernoma. The patient's postoperative course was uneventful and discharged on the seventh postoperative day with full function of the involved leg. Hibernoma is benign tumour and it is not known to recur after complete local excision which is the treatment of choice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Oncology, Theageneio Anticancer Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece. pgav7461@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Paschalis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gavriilidis
authors.forename: Grigorios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Panselinas
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zafiriou
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013848:Thigh