title: Symptomatic Giant Lipoma Under the Latissimus Muscle.
abstract: Lipoma is a common benign tumor derived from stroma that can arise in any location where fat is normally present. Giant lipoma is defined as a lesion that is >10 cm in length and weighs >1000 g. Axillary region might have been exposed to microtraumas with each movement of upper extremity, leading to the development of giant lipoma. In this report, a 56-year-old man visited us because of a soft tissue mass on the left axilla that had been noticed 5 years before. We removed the tumor from the patient under general anesthesia. A lipoma measuring 21 cm × 12 cm in size was removed, and the weight of the mass was 455 g. The case of our patient is very interesting because there have been few reported patients with a diagnosis of a giant lipoma in a sublatissimusdorsi muscle.
authors.affiliation: *Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University †Institute of Tissue Regeneration, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Cheonan, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Hwan Jun
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Sang Hun
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D001365:Axilla / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019042:Muscle Neoplasms; D064171:Superficial Back Muscles / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery