Lipoma (fatty tumor)
Description:
The lipoma is a high-quality new growth which develops from fatty tissue. A lipoma — the most common form of tumors of soft tissues. It meets in any part of a body where there is a fatty tissue. Lipomas softly elastic to the touch, as a rule, mobile, are also, as a rule, painless. The sizes of lipomas fluctuate from pea size to conglomerates weight in several kilograms. Lipomas can be single and multiple. Most often lipomas occur at patients aged from 40 up to 60 years, but also can be found also at young people. Also lipomas can be combined with other types of tumors, forming fibrolipomas, liposarcomas. Some sources claim that malignant transformation of lipomas is possible.
Lipoma reasons:
The reasons of formation of lipomas are unknown. Cases of emergence of multiple educations, so-called липоматоз meet (a disease of Madelunga, Derkum's disease, Roche-Leri's disease).
Lipoma symptoms:
Most often the patient is disturbed by cosmetic defect. Diagnosis of a lipoma is carried out on the basis of survey and a clinical picture. In certain cases for the purpose of diagnosis ispolnut ultrasonography, a computer or magnetic resonance tomography.
Multiple lipomas
Treatment of a lipoma:
Treatment of lipomas surgical. The indication to operation is cosmetic defect, dysfunction of an extremity. Small lipomas are operated on an outpatient basis. Large lipomas, and also lipomas which are located deeply and in anatomically dangerous areas operate in the conditions of a hospital. And safe the radio wave method of removal of lipomas and atheromas which consists in use of radio waves of high frequency is effective. This procedure minimizes traumatization of fabrics; provides high cosmetic effect; lack of blood loss.
