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Rare fibrolipoma of the tongue: a case report

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Medical Case Reports, August 2015
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Title
Rare fibrolipoma of the tongue: a case report
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13256-015-0653-1
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Giorgio Iaconetta, Marco Friscia, Atirge Cecere, Antonio Romano, Giovanni Dell’Aversana Orabona, Luigi Califano

Abstract

Lipoma is a benign tumor infrequent in the oral cavity, particularly in the tongue: indeed, lipomas only represent approximately 0.3% of all tongue neoplasia. Compared to conventional lipoma, fibrolipoma of the tongue is a very rare lesion that accounts for around 25-40% of tongue lipomas, and until now, to the best of our knowledge, only 14 cases have been described in which histological diagnosis of fibrolipoma was specifically confirmed. We report the case of a patient with a voluminous fibrolipoma of the tongue, treated by means of surgical excision. Fibrolipoma excision, like that described in this report, sometimes may be laborious, because fibrous bands appear to be focally infiltrating adjacent tissues, giving rise to some doubts about the nature of the lesion. We report the case of a voluminous fibrolipoma of the tongue in a 71-year-old Caucasian woman. Because of its histological characteristics, abundance of connective and secondary changes/atrophy, fibrolipoma may appear as infiltrating adjacent tissues and may cause doubts of differential diagnosis with malignant infiltrating lesions. Surgical excision is the elective treatment. However, an accurate differential diagnosis, postsurgical histological examination and careful follow-up are required.

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Unknown 20 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 10%
Researcher 2 10%
Student > Postgraduate 2 10%
Other 6 30%
Unknown 3 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 60%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 5%
Neuroscience 1 5%
Materials Science 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 3 15%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 August 2021.
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#1,281,891
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#2
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