Lipomas are benign, mesenchymal neoplasms occurring in areas of abundant adipose tissue. 1 They can be found anywhere in the body with approximately 15-20% located in the head and neck region and the majority of it rest on the shoulder and back. 2 They are not very common in the hand and those involving the fingers are extremely rare, with reported incidence of 1%. The first person to report a case of lipoma of the finger was Stein in 1959 3 and since then, 14 cases were identified in the literature. 4 Of those, 3 cases were on the index finger, 2 cases distal to the right proximal inter phalangeal joint 5 and 1 case to the left index finger. 6 All of them were post traumatic in nature. In this report, we present a forty one year old male, with lipoma of the right ring finger.
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