title: Infiltrating angiolipoma of the chest wall: a rare clinical entity.
abstract: Angiolipoma is a rare variant of lipoma. Infiltrating chest wall angiolipoma usually presents as painful subcutaneous lesions. There are only a handful of cases reported in the literature. Malignancy is suspected in the differential diagnosis, and hence a tissue diagnosis is needed to rule out an underlying malignancy. Symptomatic infiltrating angiolipoma warrants surgical excision. We report a case of an infiltrating angiolipoma of the chest wall, which was successfully treated with surgical excision.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland mayoor18@yahoo.co.uk nmayooran@rcsi.ie.
authors.forename: Nithiananthan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mayooran
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland.
authors.forename: Munir
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tarazi
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland.
authors.forename: Odharnaith
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: O'Brien
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hinchion