Lipoma

Lipoma is called the benign tumor proceeding from cells of fatty tissue. Lipomas can be multiple or single. They appear in any place where there is a fatty layer – in lumbar area, on hips, hands, a stomach, in a meninx, in mammary glands, between muscle fibers, etc.

Lipomas most often arise at people is more senior than 30 summer age. These tumors never independently decrease in sizes and do not disappear. Though they also treat high-quality new growths, but in certain cases, for example as a result of an injury, can regenerate in a malignant tumor. Therefore most of doctors recommends to the patients to carry out removal of a lipoma, even when the tumor does not bring any discomfort.

Lipoma: reasons

Lipomas result from disturbances of a lipolysis (decomposition of fatty tissue) and some system exchange processes. Quite often lipomas are observed at the people having diseases of a thyroid gland, pancreas, a diabetes mellitus and also with reduced function of a hypophysis. Other reasons of a lipoma, specialists consider, malignant new growths of respiratory tracts, genetic predisposition and alcoholism. But there are cases when it is not possible to establish the lipoma reason.

Lipoma symptoms

The lipoma has an appearance of mobile, elastic, soft and painless education and most often is located under skin. But when the tumor is located in close proximity to a large nervous trunk and in process of the growth begins to squeeze it, because of irritation of a nerve it becomes painful.

By the size lipomas can be various. Often they reach the huge sizes (about 20,0 cm in the diameter).

There are several types of a lipoma:

• The lipofibroma – represents a tumor very soft to the touch as a part of which cells of fatty tissue prevail;
• The fibrous lipoma – in its structure in addition to fatty, enters also fibrous (connecting) fabric. Such tumors differ in the considerable density and elasticity.
• The angiolipoma (cavernous lipoma) – is present at it a large number of small blood vessels (capillaries).
• The myolipoma – is a part of this tumor the fatty and muscular tissue giving it a hilly look.

Characteristic symptom of a lipoma is that at the general weight loss of the person the sizes of this tumor considerably increase.

Diagnosis of a lipoma

The lipoma is very similar in the signs to a tumor of sebaceous glands – an atheroma. The place of localization is their distinguishing character. Atheromas usually are located in places of accumulation of sebaceous glands, and lipomas – in the place of accumulation of fatty tissue. In addition the lipoma has no the traces of an output channel characteristic of an atheroma.

In most cases at a superficial arrangement of a lipoma the doctor makes the correct diagnosis already during survey of the patient. At internal lipomas tool diagnostic methods are used: a X-ray analysis with contrasting, ultrasonography, a computer tomography.

Lipoma: treatment

Though the lipoma is also a benign tumor, it is not necessary to refuse its treatment since there is a risk of its malignancy (malignant regeneration). In addition superficial lipomas in process of the growth cause esthetic discomfort. Internal lipomas can lead to emergence of nervous breakdowns and disturbance of activity of internals, close to them. Therefore it is very important to address timely the surgeon for treatment of a lipoma.

Conservative methods of treatment of a lipoma are not applied, in a type of their inefficiency. Removal of a lipoma is made in the surgical way. During operation the doctor deletes contents of a lipoma and carefully scrapes out its capsule or completely deletes it that allows to prevent a disease recurrence. After that the wound is taken in tightly.

Removal of a lipoma, on condition of its superficial arrangement, is carried out under local anesthesia in out-patient conditions. Lipomas, deeply located or very big by the size, delete in a hospital under the general anesthesia.

Removal of a lipoma can be made both by means of traditional open operation, and with use of the endoscopic equipment. However use of endovideo surgical methods recrudesces bigger percent diseases, than usual operation.

In the most modern way of treatment of lipomas their removal by means of a laser beam is today. Similar operations are well undergone by patients, and a recurrence practically never arises. The wound after removal of a lipoma in this case very quickly heals, and the hem which is formed on its place is almost imperceptible.

After removal of a lipoma in policlinic the patient can go at once home. But it should come daily to the doctor for processing of seams and bandaging of a wound. The wound after removal of a lipoma usually heals within 7 – 8 days. Then also carry out removal of skin seams.

Lipoma: national treatment

There are various methods of national treatment of a lipoma. As the most effective of them are considered honey сметанные masks. For their preparation it is necessary to take fresh fat sour cream, salt and honey in an equal ratio. Ingredients carefully mix among themselves and heat on the water bath. Hot mix (but so not to burn!) apply on the surface of skin over a lipoma and hold about 20 minutes. Procedures are performed every other day. On a lipoma course of treatment 15 – 20 masks usually are required.

Though national treatment of a lipoma in many cases allows to get rid of a tumor without surgical intervention, it is not necessary to use it without consultation of the doctor. Remember that the lipoma can sometimes regenerate in a liposarcoma and in this case the delay with treatment and also which are warming up procedures can lead to distribution of metastasises and a lethal outcome!