title: Rare cases of benign tumors of the head and neck: lipoma of larynx and sternocleidomastoid muscle.
abstract: In this article, we report two rare cases of lipoma in the head and neck region. Thirty-four-year-old case 1 presented with hoarseness and sensation of foreign body in throat. While 54-year-old case 2 presented with complaint of a mass in left side of neck. The imaging methods showed the masses in false vocal fold and the sternocleidomastoid muscle. Diagnosis and treatment of the masses were discussed in light of the literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Sakarya University, Training and Research Hospital, 54100 Sakarya, Turkey. drdenizdemir@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Deniz
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Demir
authors.forename: Özden
authors.initials: Ö
authors.lastname: Eraslan
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Güven
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kösem
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006685:Hoarseness / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007828:Laryngoscopy / Q000379:methods; D008067:Lipoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019042:Muscle Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009334:Neck Muscles / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D014827:Vocal Cords / Q000473:pathology