Chondrolipoma of tongue

Abstract

Although lipomas can occur in any part of the body, they are found infrequently in the oral cavity. Variants of lipoma have been described according to the type of tissue present; a lipoma with cartilaginous metaplasia is a chondrolipoma which is a rare variant. We describe a chondrolipoma of tongue in a 36 year old lady. Key words: Tongue, Chondrolipoma doi: 10.3126/kumj.v6i4.1745 Kathmandu University Medical Journal (2008), Vol. 6, No. 4, Issue 24, 505-507

Chondrolipoma: Report of a rare intra oral variant with review of histiogenetic concepts

“…[ 15 19 ] While these lesions are usually diagnosed in older adults, they may originate at a younger age as some of these tumors including the present case have shown long duration of presentation. [ 14 15 17 ] There may be an actual bimodal age predilection as substantial number of cases (almost one-third including the present case) seem to originate in the first two decades of life[ 13 14 15 19 ] but a larger number of cases will be required to accept or refute this observation. This feature of chondrolipoma slightly differs from a conventional lipoma, which are rarely seen in the first two decades of life and are thought to make their appearance at the age when fat starts accumulating in inactive individuals.…”

“…A review of the PUBMED database revealed 14 such cases in English literature. [ 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ] We have included only those cases which presented strictly within the oral cavity and histologically showed presence of only cartilaginous tissue in a predominantly mature adipocyte proliferation. The clinicopathological features of these cases including the present case have been summarized in Table 1 .…”

“…[ 4 14 15 ] Some authors consider these lesions as one of the subsets of mesenchymomas. [ 13 ] Though this term has been used in past,[ 20 ] it was first defined by Stout[ 21 ] for tumors that are composed of two or more mesenchymal elements. On the other hand, Jones et al .,[ 22 ] described mesenchymomas as an unencapsulated soft tissue neoplasms composed of two or more mature mesenchymal tissues not normally associated with each other and no single mesenchymal tissue should predominate with respect to the other mesenchymal elements.…”

“…[ 5 6 ] As per Pubmed database, till date only 14 cases of chondrolipoma in oral cavity have been reported in English literature. [ 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ] Herein, we report a case of this rare intraoral variant in a 35-year-old male patient.…”

A rare diagnosis in the neck during childhood: congenital chondrolipoma

“…Chondrolipoma is a benign mesenchymal tumor where mature chondroid areas are observed as a result of cartilaginous metaplasia in lipoma (1). Chondrolipomas are most frequently seen in the breast and rarely in the head and neck region and are most commonly found in adults in the fifth and sixth decade (2,3).…”