Lipid cell tumor

A benign tumor of skin fat cells (adipocytes) is common in young people. It is named so because it has nothing to do with malignancy before an oncological tumor. It lasts a long time and usually occurs in the same area - the chest, less often the neck, back. Rarely formed in

Lipid cell tumor

**Liposclerosis tumor** is a relatively rare benign neoplasm of unknown etiology, characterized by the replacement of normal adipose tissue with tumor tissue, which is based on lipocytes, altered osteocytes, eosinophils and plasma cells. According to ICD 11 there are:

-B97.0 Differential diagnosis not specified; - B97.2 Infiltrative lobular lipoma; - B972.8 Oval lobular lipoma. Not to be confused with other lipomas or lipogranuloma. Although histologically it is similar. A lipid cell tumor should contain lipocytes. The morphological structure is similar to lobular lipoma

In fact, it is very difficult to distinguish it from another tumor, such as glandular cystadenoma. The last word is Lobular-containing tumor, which can be differentiated at the microscopic level. It is also worth mentioning some **known cases** of detection of gigantic sizes of such tumors:

* the woman was diagnosed with lipogranuloma of the mucous membranes of the oral cavity, throat, lungs, appendages, and sacrum. Resection was performed