Bone lipoma: case report and review

Abstract

Bone lipomas are infrequently in the current dairy medical practice, those tumor represent 0.1% of all bone tumors. Aetiology is unknown and surgery is the best treatment. In this tumors is necessary to do a relation physical-radiological and histopatological and, in this way is necessary to known a prognosis about them tumors. The bone tumors do not develop symptoms in general, its tumor become evident when we ask for a TC or radiography near to some articulation with pain or other clinical signal. This tumors can miss diagnosticated with other bening bone tumors. We present this case because is anecdotical in a female patient 67 years old. (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).