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angiolipoma

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angiolipoma /an·gio·li·po·ma/ (-li-po´mah) an often painful lipoma containing clusters of thin-walled proliferating blood vessels.
an·gi·o·li·po·ma (nj--l-pm, -l-)
n.
A benign tumor composed chiefly of fat cells and containing an unusually large number of vascular channels.

angiolipoma
angioma containing fatty tissue.

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Angiolipoma is a rare variant of lipoma; its distinctive feature is prominent vascularity.
On histology, the IAC tumor showed nerve tissue with fatty infiltration (figure 2), while the forearm tumor showed an angiolipoma.
 
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