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chondroid lipoma

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chondroid lipoma,
an uncommon benign fatty neoplasm occurring as a well-circumscribed, yellow, sometimes encapsulated, slowly growing mass under the skin, typically affecting middle-aged adults, usually women, and most often involving the limb girdles or proximal extremities. It is characterized by a lobular growth pattern and is composed of large vacuolated cells resembling lipoblasts.


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Chondroid lipoma is a recently described benign soft tissue tumor with a predilection for subcutaneous tissue, fascia, or skeletal muscle of the proximal extremities.
A chondrolipoma must be distinguished from a chondroid lipoma, which is a separate entity.
 
 
 
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